Yes - the wiring had challenges - I think the auto guider port for a Vixen was hard to wire and the Meade DSI sometimes blue screen of death Windows when the cable wobbles
and mirror flop on the SCT caused alignment issues for quite some time etc...
But this was a thread on gaining the image processing experience more than the mechanical point and track skills.
And no the 400D is Digic II so no live view...
But with a bit of photoshop processing with just one shot of the Eagle 600 secs - using layers and subtracting clone stamp altered Gaussian copies to remove vignetting, then simple levels and curves an a final soft Gaussian Blur and Unsharp Mask you get the following - from an shot guiding at a 10 second interval (couldn't find a guide star - it needed 2-3 second guiding I'd guess) , with a novice at the hands of Photoshop really:
Original (shrunk) and processed shot (also shrunk) for comparison:
PS
I goofed the stars - I should have selected them, inversed selection and then Gaussian Blurred only the Nebulae using a 2 pixel radiuss. By including the stars in the Gaussian Blur I accidentally softened quite reasonable stars - my whoopsie!