I’m currently working with some “old” CCD data (captured with an Atik 11000) in APP version 1.036.0.
After having applied “3) analyse stars”, APP calculated the quality of the lights and selected a reference frame.
Next I visually checked the lights row for row in order to verify if I agree with APP and to look for abnormalities. I found several frames with abnormalities (too bright/light leaks) and cleared those frames from the list. This also included the automatically selected reference frame. Then, after pressing the stack button under “6) integrate”, the error seen in the screenshot appeared.
After re-analysing the frames (in order to let APP automatically set a reference frame) the error didn’t pop up. The error message isn’t (very) clear in describing/addressing the issue. I guess the error occurred because I deleted the reference frame from the list.