Stu

Nice shot Keith. I often use Snapseed on my phone to reduce the sky background brightness on shots like this, it has a very handy curves function.

This is my best planet to date... single shot

Have a look at this thread, just a bit of fun really but some useful stuff about smartphone imaging. This my M42 attempt is on there, plus a decent one of Jupiter.

https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/282996-the-inaugural-stupod-winner-announced/?tab=comments#comment-3097056

Some amazing shots there smisy. The Huawei does seem to be the smartphone camera to have currently.