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Well I really think you have done an excellent job.
My tip and this is general and not prompted by anything that has worried me that I could see in your image...is to always look at your first couple of exposures just to check they are "still" in focus and how the trailing is going..sometimes you need to just give up on getting polar perfect and just reduce your exposure time so the trailing becomes less or un noticable. Now me having the stars walk across the screen is a good thing and I call it auto dithering..strictly its not good dithering but I say that to remind you that it really is suposed to be fun and we both know that is very easy to forget.. I am known to break the rules with gain for example but my short cuts are usually prompted by finding something is not really working as it should tracking seeing or what ever so I just bang out something and have fun taking the results thru the process and making the best out of the mess that I can ...
And you know when that perfect night is happening so the time spent on "funny" nights becomes worth it...and much the same with processing..dont necessarily expect a "good" result as Most important is each time you build your skill..the result even if crook builds skill..and temper that with you learn by mistakes you can keep it as a fun experience...look at what goes wrong and laugh.
Now all my mistakes and high gain tom foolery has me expert in correcting stuff in photo shop..not good for the Marlins but a useful skill and just so much fun.
Thanks for posting .
I really like your image and frankly hope I can do as well if this rain ever stops,
Alex
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