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Spent 6 hours last Saturday trying to stack Orion shots in Siril and the whole time it was one wrong checkbox
I kept getting star trails on every single sub even though my polar alignment was dead on, and I was about ready to toss my laptop off the balcony. Turns out I had 'debayer' unchecked for my DSLR files, so it was stacking raw grayscale frames like an idiot, has anyone else lost a whole night to one dumb setting?
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the_thea29d ago
Wasted a whole night last month because I forgot to check the box for my light frames being raw instead of fits, felt like such a genius. At least you figured it out before the laptop went flying.
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grant.felix29d ago
Read a thread on cloudy nights where a guy did the exact same thing. His DSLR subs came in as gray and he stacked for two nights before catching it. The good news is once you flip that box the star color pops back in like magic. Craig's rant about the manual is fair but honestly half these programs bury the debayer toggle three menus deep. Thea, the raw vs fits thing gets everybody at least once.
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craig.mila29d ago
Six hours is nothing, try losing three straight weeks of clear skies because you refuse to update your flats library and just keep blending in old dust spots thinking the stacking software will magically sort it out. Unchecked debayer is a five second fix that you clearly caught yourself, so where is the real pain here? Half the "wasted night" stories on here come down to people skipping a two minute read of the manual before hitting run. Honestly the trail issue probably taught you more about your gear than a smooth session ever would, so maybe the dumb mistake was the useful part. Complaining about one checkbox when the hobby is literally built on trial and error and swearing at equipment feels a bit dramatic.
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