Hi Chris,
Why not concentrate on the positives rather than the negatives. There's wouldn't be one of us in this game that hasn't felt deflated or frustrated at times but I've never thought that I've not made some progress. It's a learning curve that can be steep at times.
I was told on the weekend that astro-imaging is 40% imaging and 60% processing and I think that's pretty true.
Your image taken under the conditions you mentioned isn't that bad. Considering it was unguided the stars are round and no vignetting that I can see. It's a nice wide field shot and a person more advanced with processing will get more out of it.
As Raymo said have a look at the online tutorials. They'll help a lot.
Keep at it, most of us have probably had more failures than successes but that's the nature of the game.
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