Bortle class 6, Elevation 1363 meters above sea level, telescope literally on my front porch facing due South this evening. The Meade LX 200 8" Schmidt Cassegrain telescope has a 2000mm focal length and an F/10 aperture. The S/C style scopes mirror the image horizontally versus other types of scopes which flip the image vertically. So during post processing I do flip it back to correct the view. Otherwise during a full moon view the Tycho crater and the Mares would look especially odd.

This is the first shot with a cell phone mount and 3 second timer to lessen the camera actuation vibes and eliminate the finger touch tremor. I can see a definite improvement but if you look at the top and bottom and far edge there are image issues a single exposure can't correct, IMO. The cell camera struggles to reconcile a spherical object viewed through lenses and mirrors 250K miles away, methinks.

The terminator line looked decent to me with good crater shadowing. The view through the scope is about 50 times better than the cell pic. Everything is crisp, very distinct and bright...the reach out and touch it clear and close seeming.

Meade LX 200 SC telescope, cell phone mount, Pixel 4XL cell phone set with a 3 second timer.

Mirror flipped, cropped, contrast, sharpened.