Tonight is the second time I did some imaging with the equipment I have collected. I imaged the pics from Cambridge, Massachusetts in the US. Any comments and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I hope to learn as much as I can here so that when I return to Singapore later this year I can carry on where I left off!

I imaged M31 - about 20 images of about 300 sec exposures (or maybe 200 sec, cannot recall). I did the dark and light frames too. This was the best I could do with Photoshop:

Another version:

I am not sure why my image looks a bit grey? Or is this the normal colour? I shot everything in RAW this time.
I then tried to take M42 before it set. I only had a limited time because M42 is visible only for a short time from my balcony. I managed to catch it as it was setting behind some trees:

This is a single 30 sec shot.
I tried taking multiple shots, but the branch got in the way and combining the images gave a weird shadow where the branch is.
A crop of the shot above:

One thing I realise is that in the shots above, I can see tiny arrays... what are these, and how do I get rid of them?
Again, thanks for all your help... any comments and suggestions would be greatly appreciated!