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Wow Peter.M, 1 month eh?...Can't complain about the first image you posted, and then the second is much better. You're learning very quickly, keep it up.
There are lots of things you can do to improve, there's no doubt. It's taken me years since the film era to get results that I'm happy with now.
Also don't forget that, although there's a heck of alot of science and technical rights and wrongs behind the image acquisition and then subsequent processing, there's also alot of 'black art' available to us through software these days, which is subjective.
The challenge for astrophotographers is to learn to get the best technically out of our budgets ($, equipment, and personal time to get well focussed and round stars, avoid colour saturation of bright areas, achieve high S/N ratios, etc) as well as create something that is pleasing to the eye without overdoing it.
Brendan, and others in this forum across a bunch of posts, have alot of great advice. I just wish I had more time to take advantage of it.
So, don't worry about posting here, it's the best thing that you can do to improve!
Have fun.
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