Hi Mitchell, I have a peltier cooled mirror on my newtonian, and Paul Haese (rumplesriot) modded his scope as well. A few people around here are trying that path now to get better images, including Trevor (quark) on these forums.
Have a look hre and you'll see quite a few threads and discussion about it:
http://scp3.org/forum/index.php?board=14.0
cheers, Bird