A little better photo, but still not much compared to the view

As promised here's a photo through the eyepiece from the Canon t1i.

This photo still is not nearly as good as it should be. I'd estimate the view looking through the eyepiece showed 20 times more detail and many more craters than in this handheld photo.

To do the photograph correctly, I should have mounted a webcam like device to the telescope and taken a video clip or movie with this mounted on the telescope properly. With the Vixen, it's likely that I'd have to use "eyepiece" projection, which is not the case with many telescopes, for example the telescopes in the observatory. So I'd need an adapter that held the webcam over the eyepiece using "eyepiece" projection into the webcam. The video recording would provide many frames and good software would select the best frames and give me a photograph that would look as good or better than what we'd see in the eyepiece.

Because I continue to do handheld photos most of the time through eyepieces my photo suffer in quality.

Still you can get a rough idea what the view was like seeing this photo. Most cheap telescopes would give a view this well and even better than presented below.

When I get a proper webcam and adapter things may change. Or when we get the replacement camera for the observatory that should have movie capability. This will likely happen in about a month or so. With Astronomy you may want to take you're time and be patient, as many things in the sky will be there in the future for us to look at. Sometimes as consumers we forget that and tend to rush out to get the latest gadgets to look at the stars.