I was flipping about my web site tonight and came across an old image of Centaurus A I did some time ago. It was taken with the 6" Starfire and my fantastic little sensitive, fine pixel and noisless StarlightXpress mono SXV-H9 on the Takahashi NJP mount so you'd expect it to be pretty ok ...right?
Weeeell ok it's not in colour buuuut this is what happens if the seeing is crap, focus is off, too little exposure is taken and you use slack processing:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...30883/original
When you have the same gear (well, new camera but essentially the same) and imager but with lots of exposure, steady seeing and careful processing...you get this:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...20688/original
Like Jase will tell you (good man, him)..before you blame your (or others) equipment, think about your approach and methods first
Mike