Heart to accompany the Soul

It's a beautiful thing. This is 16x10min subs. 60 Flat frames and 40 bias frames. I took the Flat frames with 0s exposures in Neb2 and so used the bias frames as flat darks as well. I think the flats are coming out nice, as evident in the lack of a central halo.



But this image just has too many stars in it!! I don't know how to reduce them. Also I wonder how can I do a better job of data acquisition for this. Should I go longer on each exposure?? or do shorter, more numerous subs? Light pollution is definitely screwing me over to some degree. But there is a glimmer of hope.