How to improve viewing?

[Girders]

6 minutes ago, happy-kat said:

Have you tried a towel over your head to help your night vision and then wait 20 minutes plus under the hood at the eyepiece to see what more of M45 you could make out.

Might give that a go (to keep warm as much as anything!).

[willinliv]

Nice pics through the eyepiece, enjoyed the progression. For what it's worth with I get similar results with my 130p (very similar). I always get abit of a gutsy reaction when I see the moons, albeit not a tremendous amount of banding on the planet