Using my Canon 30D mounted prime focus on my Meade LX200R operating at f/10, I finally succeeded in imaging this object. 30 second exposures really didn't gather an adequate amount of photons for this object, so the resulting image could be improved upon. This is where a modified dSLR would really help, since the Ha emission reveals so much more detail for this strong emission lines produced by the Eagle Nebula. I'm pleased I managed to tease out as much detail from the clouds of gas (aka Hubble's "Pillars of Creation") as show up in the resultant image, but further work on this object will have to wait until I acquire a modified dSLR.

Details:
Telescope: Meade LX200R 8" operating at f/10 mounted Alt/Az
Canon 30D (unmodified) mounted at prime focus
Exposures: 26 images at 30 sec
ISO 3200, Sunlight white balance
Processing:
ImagesPlus: dark, flat & bias frames applied, digital development of Canon Raw to FITS, processing in FITS using very aggressive Digital Development, then conversion of final image to 48 bit TIFF for further processing.
Corel PhotoPaint X3: aggressive saturation increase, convert to 24 bit RGB, image size reduction & conversion to jpg