wow thanks for all the feedback everyone. learning a lot from these forums. I greyscaled the image to remove the colour, then fiddled the black and white levels to produce the final image. I use Paint Shop Pro rather than photoshop.
I do have a moon map and suspect a long and glorious winter imaging the moon and learning all her features. I have to say I love the lunar seas the most. I think jupiter will also be soon on the hitlist.
heres a picture of my setup. the camera adapter i made is clearly visible. except i have the camera off it...to take this pic
i'm pretty happy so far with this setup. I want to buy a better finder scope soon and a barlow or 2. I was thinking of the meade #140 barlow but apparently its length bottoms out in ETX scopes.