Hi George, you have nice detail especially for first image.
Just some points, I have experience related to your images. The resolution you are using may not be the right so use another one that doesn't squash the images I found by using 1280 x 1024 I squashed the image. I then tried 1280 x 960 and the image was perfect. You may be able to stretch the image (resize horizontally) to fix this.
I also found out only today how important it is to get the whitebalance right during capture. It can be resolved using colour alignment and balance and lots of fiddling around, but I found the time to take to resolve is very long. Histogramming each channel to equal each other is the best way I found.
Keep it up, fill in those times were light pollution makes it hard to Deepsky
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