Big Tasty

I hope that's not completely true. Celestron's website speaks about good images and it was rated as a good astrophotography scope.

Hello everyone, I haven't had a telescope for years and recently bought the Celestron Astromaster 130EQ. Finding several planets came and even the ring nebula came easy. But the astrophotography bug bit quickly. I bought a cheap DSLR to learn, a Canon EOS Rebel from 2003 for $25. I also purchased the t-ring and adapter followed by celestron's t-adapter which worked better. These last couple nights I've tried putting only the lens of my 3x Televue barlow to bring the focal plane closer to the secondary mirror. I've tried eyepieces alone and with the barlow. Ive tried the entire barlow sticking out of the telescope with the DSLR by a mile. The t-adapter is too short for my barlows lens and the silber tube it screws into. As a result, the tip needs to be kept somewhat in place by the set screw above it. I've even tried holding it in place directly with the set screw. My last pictures showed the telescope spider after learning the camera a bit which was more frustrating. Please help me with my camera settings and how to get better focus with a barlow. My camera settings are as follows: ISO 800-1600, white balance at daylight, exposure at 8 to 20 seconds with a 10 second delay, and images are set to raw.