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Here are my thoughts and feedback.
#1, you don't need much feedback. Considering all of the work, technique, and tools you put into this image, you know a lot more than almost anyone that will post here.
#2, If i must nitpick, the black sky portion of the image dosn't transition well into the light blue horizon area. It does not look natural. If you're going for a natural look, the sky won't have a pure black to light blue transition like that.
#3, for prints, you may want to consider trying what I do. Get all of your MW images separate from your ground images. I shoot my land images during sunset and sunrise blue hours, (don't want shadows). Then I throw my MW images on top of those. With this technique, my MW images are roughly 95-100% sky only. My ground images are roughly 90% land and about 10% of the top image has some sky. This gives you a lot of cropping options once the blend is completed.
#4, I too use a tracker. I usually stack 15-20 images shot at F/2.0 to F/2.8 for 2-4 minutes at ISO 800 or 1600. The editing latitude you get once the median stack is done is awesome! Plus you get rid of any airplane trails too. Auto-Align layers in Photoshop is always accurate because, for the most part, the stars are already aligned in camera.
#5, if you're going to stack 20+ images, you may as well just output to .jpg first. Stacking so many images, you don't need RAW files. Once you've stacked that many .jpg files, your output file will be just fine.
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