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Ken things to check.
Your first image looks like the focus is out. So check and recheck focus until your satisfied it is good. Take all the time you need, don't rush this part.
Next; settings change from night to night. You want the image to look bright but not too bright. This is controlled by gain, exposure or gamma. What I like to do is lower my exposure to somewhere around 1/50 and then adjust the gain to brighten the image. Don't be afraid of the gain. You need to have gain to get the fine details. Now in your scope the settings for exposure will be different. You have a fast scope so you may have to go much lower at say somewhere around 1/100 or 1/250.
Also I would get K3CCDtools demo version. The controls are easy to handle and better than the phillips software.
Try to keep brightness at 50% and then don't touch it again. I like to leave saturation near 100% Gamma just a little over 5%.
I have found that experimentation can often lead to break throughs. So try a little experimentation. If you really get stuck go to the default settings and start again.
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