Astrophotograpy - First attempt

Light pollution is one contributing factor as to why you don’t see the fainter details. Even if there were no city lights (as you are hoping for in the Alps), 6 seconds simply don’t suffice to catch those. I know, you can’t expose longer due to the star trails, but consider using a wider lens. The Samyang 16mm f/2 is really nice for astro on a crop. With it you can expose up to 18 seconds without needing a star tracker.

True, but the resulting images are not summed up, instead the median pixels were taken to prevent noise. Still the resulting image was only exposed for 6 seconds, and not enough photons from fainter stars made it to the sensor.

Would it yield a better result, if you summed up, let’s say, groups of five images and did a median on those six groups?