Basic Smartphone Adapter

Great product. Holds phone in place and easy to adjust. Item is durable and well designed. Moderate weight so gotta be a bit careful on telescope not to tilt it once phone in place.

Tricky to place on my phone on. One you get it, the phone stays in place. I attached my first picture taken on the phone using this attachment with my telescope.

Any observer with optics, preferably, on a stand will like this. Not cheap, but very well engineered. Robust. And if any axis feels a little slack, or too tight, there are small screws to adjust. Ensure your mount can take the weight of phone. As an astronomer, I found it helpful to attach to an eyepiece in daylight. The Z axis (up and down to the eyepiece), was easier than in the dark. Hope this helps.

Good points: Simple design compatible with almost any scope and phone. Main frame is metal and solid. Quite steady. Takes decent photos. (See below, I was really pleased). Phone clamp has foam cushioning and holds phone well. Same brand as my binoculars. Bad points: The big issue for me is that the natural place for it to clamp my iPhone, (both a 12 and a 16), in a vertical position (as per instructions) is where the power button/volume controls are. So I have to clamp to one eyepiece and photograph through the other. Less steady and safe. Phone clamp is only plastic and cracked when I dropped it-it did glue very neatly though, and I’ve had no more problems. Very fiddly to set up just right, but quite steady when set. Quite big with all the screws and clamps poking out.

This is a great device. Yes it is a bit tricky to set up, but one you have it on it does make it very easy to get better pictures than you would just hand holding. Biggest issue is as you move it about to line it up, the iPhone keeps switching lenses, but you can get there. Attached are a couple of pictures. On is lemon cells and the other is grains of salt. The attachment is flexible and fits ok on the Apex, although as a binocular microscope the second eyepiece does make it slightly snug. The plastic adaptor fits well and the phone felt secure. Alignment movement feels pretty good, although a bit rougher than I expected. Overall I think it is well made and good quality..

I was really looking forward to trying this item on my telescope(not tried on any other instrument), so it's a shame that for me at least it is absolutely useless. Firstly it is pretty well built and looks like it could last a lot of uses. But because of the way the phone sits in the cradle and most phones have the camera at the top, it will always be unbalanced, so the jaws cannot hold the phone in position on the eyepiece properly. Also despite using the adjustment to move the phone camera nearer or further away from the eyepiece, my phone nearly always says " move away to focus". Maybe it would work if you have manual focus on your phone but mine doesn't.

Highly adjustable and well-engineered. Very quick to mount the phone, it grips well and is easy to position accurately. The friction of each individual axis can be increased with a small screw (separate from the main adjustment) to ensure the phone stays in place. So far I’ve only tried it with a pair of binoculars but it worked well. More expensive that many other mounts but you definitely get what you pay for.

I bought the Celestron NeXYZ despite the mixed reviews, for my fieldscope rather than telescope. I have got the adaptor working well now after experimentation: 1. It is important to tighten all the screws, as well as the tensioning screws (but not too far as to inhibit smooth xyz movements). 2. My main issue was that the focal point of the phone camera lens was repeatedly off centre from the focal point of the eyepiece image requiring more digital zoom and a reduction in photo quality. I thought this was due to the use of multiple lenses on my phone. In fact, I noted that the phone was at a skewed angle to the eyepiece - this was because on the adaptor the eyepiece clamp and phone clamp did not align and was slightly off-level. There is no way to adjust this on the adaptor, which is a flaw the manufacturer has missed and would have been easy enough to incorporate. I managed to align the eyepiece and phone clamp by inserting a little piece of plastic as a 'spacer' in the rear screwed fixture. This sorted the issue nicely. 3. It is important to ensure the eyepiece clamp is correctly fitted so the phone is level to the eyepiece. This is is quite simple after a few go's. 4. This adaptor works much better on wider ocular eyepiece lenses, which is logical as there is a greater image diameter to align the phone lens to. 5. I found my stock camera app to be of little use, best to experiment with others which allow better manual control. Pro Camera X on Android works well. This adaptor is very useful in the way it allows xyz movements, allowing fairly swift alignment with the ocular image. However, the off-level alignment with the eyepiece and phone clamp on the adaptor is an issue and is probably as result of the polymer plastic construction. This is an easy fix, however, for a price tag of £50, I do feel that I shouldn't have to. I am happy with this adaptor now I have fixed the issues, although I do wonder whether cheaper models would do just as good of a job.

I could secure my phone over the eyepiece of my telescope without breaking any sweat.

Utilisé sur Jumelle astro (sur trépieds) et télescope (sur des oculaires 1,25" via l'un des deux adaptateurs complémentaires inclus) avec un iPhone 13 Pro, je dois reconnaître que si cela demande plus de manipulations qu'avec un adaptateur T2 pour appareil photo (qu'il suffit de visser), cela n'en demeure pas moins génial. Les optiques sur smartphones sont de petit diamètre, et selon le modèle, elles ne sont pas placées au même endroit, et pire maintenant, les smartphones en ont plusieurs. Cela a pour conséquence de demander un peu de réglage préalable: - Choisir l'objectif du smartphone à aligner avec l'oculaire (quand il y en a plusieurs) - Trouver le réglage du logiciel de photo du smartphone permettant d'utiliser l'objectif en question - Aligner précisément (dans les 3 directions) l'objectif et l'oculaire Cela implique de passer un peu de temps la première fois en pointant sur un objet fixe et suffisamment lumineux (pour ne pas en plus galérer avec la mise au point logicielle du smartphone). Ensuite, il devient possible de faire de très belles photos souvenirs. Je n'ai pas encore regardé s'il est possible de procéder comme avec une caméra astro pour faire de l'empilement, mais déjà, pour quelques euros, on est en capacité de faire facilement des photos lunaires, planétaires, d'observation en journée, etc. Je n'ai pas encore eu de ciel suffisamment clair pour essayer sur des amas stellaires. Je pense que pour une utilisation avec un smartphone (solution "cheap" donc), c'est déjà très très bien ! J'ai apprécié la qualité générale de l'objet (pas de jeux sur les éléments mobiles, facilité et précision des réglages, possibilité de ne pas dérégler entre 2 utilisations. Franchement, c'est top !

Llevo dos semanas usando este soporte y me ha ayudado mucho, también para mejorar mi equipo. Es una buena compra si quieres mejorar el equipo de tu telescopio.👍👍👍

Doesn’t work with my scope

When I decided I would try my skills with a telescope, I soon learned I had zero skills. I watched many YouTube videos in regards to different setups that others were using. Of course they all had thousands of dollars in equipment that I couldn’t afford. I looked for the cheapest but most practice ideas for my budget. This piece was so easy to use. Not an easy setup at first, trying to adjust for perfect viewing but once it was set up, I was golden and on my way. Too cold outside for me to setup the telescope at the moment but I plan on being out there this spring, summer and fall to get as much photography as I can. Good luck to all who enjoy this area.