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That is about what I see through my C8 with a 10mm LV eyepiece (though sharper of course, I'm guessing you were hand-holding the camera?)
You could get a better quality 6mm or smaller eyepice for more magnification, and the focus could certainly be better.
The thing with the planets though, as far as I can tell, the seeing is the limiting factor, you can get a lot more magnification with a higher powered, better quality eyepiece, and bigger/stacked barlows, but often you just get a bigger, blurrier image because of the atmospherics.
I've found filters can help a bit, as can letting the scope cool right down, then you can go for higher magnifications, but with my c8 I've found the 10mm eyepiece with a barlow is about as far as I can go unless it is an exceptional night.
The amazing thing to me is image stacking, and that faint, detail-less blob of saturn turns into a sharp detailed planet when stacking the images on the computer. I understand how it works, but it still seems like voodoo at times.
I'm guessing you could get higher magnification than I can on my C8, but not drastically so. See if you can borrow some eyepieces to try out. I'd be happy to send you my 6mm once it arrives to give it a go.
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