Hi Rob. I spent a bit of time with a similar setup (Meade 10” on a cgem) a couple years back doing some basic eaa livestacking and basic saturation / contrast boost using my phone. Here’s a post I made back then with a few shots:
https://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/...d.php?t=193594
There’s no fancy processing here and live-stacking means even the crap subs are included, but it gives you a bit of a comparison.
My personal opinion of you shots is that it’s actually not bad at all. Your main issue is backspacing and possibly collimation/focus. If you get this sorted and get some good conditions I am confident you can come up with quite a tidy image. Just note that no sct is going to give you stars as tight and small as a good frac or newt, without some post processing. But I’ve had a heck of a lot of fun imaging with a range of different scts and keep leaning new stuff to make improvements along the way.