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Spent 3 hours trying to stack star photos with the wrong software version
I finally got around to editing some shots from a camping trip near Big Bend last month and ran into the biggest headache. I use DeepSkyStacker for my widefield images but it kept crashing on me for no reason. Turned out I was running an old version from 2019 that didn't support my camera's raw files. After redownloading and reinstalling twice I finally checked the update log and realized I was three major releases behind. What should have been a 30 minute stacking job ended up taking an entire evening because I kept troubleshooting the wrong thing. Has anyone else wasted a ton of time on something stupid like forgetting to update software before a processing session?
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kimdixon3d ago
Idk, I keep my software pretty updated but stuff like this happens all the time. Maybe it's just me but spending three hours on a dumb mistake is kind of a rite of passage in astrophotography. One time I forgot to turn off the autofocus on my lens and wasted a whole night of shooting.
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