Getting Started using a Smart Phone - Cameras / Imaging Devices

RE: Getting Started using a Smart Phone

Jack St.Louis — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 21:29:42 +0000

I have the $30 or so phone holder from Orion, works great on most eyepieces, but I did have trouble with a variable a while back. I really like the one I have, simple and holds all phones I have tried so far. Jack

RE: Getting Started using a Smart Phone

ScottE — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 23:47:03 +0000

@terriz

Yes, it's the NexYZ product. I got it on the conference floor at NEAF last spring. They were offering a significant show discount.

RE: Getting Started using a Smart Phone

Terri Zittritsch — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 23:39:06 +0000

Scott, is this the Celestron Nexyz that you're using? If so, I purchased one of these as well and can agree with you that it offers a lot more adjustment than the standard clamps, one of which I've purchased and returned. Unfortunately it costs about 3X more than the simpler clamps.

Terri

Getting Started using a Smart Phone

ScottE — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:24:20 +0000

I've been dabbling at capturing images through various telescopes for a couple of years.

I had very limited success with trying to hold a smart-phone camera up to the eyepiece of a Celestron 128EQ on an equatorial mount.

Things got quite a bit easier when I invested in an inexpensive Phone Clamp that clamps onto the barrel of an eyepiece. The cheap Phone Clamp had a couple of degrees of freedom for aligning the phone with the eyepiece. Hard to use. Easy to knock out of alignment.

I purchased a Celestron Phone Clamp that had more adjustments for alignment, and it greatly simplified capturing quick images with a phone. Once the phone is clamped, there are three knobs to turn for the XYZ alignment of the phone lens with the eyepiece lens.

ScottE