Southern constellation shot revisited

On my tour of older photographs, I found 2 snaps south of Orion taken with my compact digital camera and 8 seconds exposure each.

I combined them using Microsoft ICE, used Paintshop Pro to increase the brightness by using the Arithmetic feature.

I finished it using the Curves feature of GIMP.

The end result shows Canis Major and Canis Minor together with the southern part of Orion and Lepus just below it.