This smart telescope with a mobile phone adapter comes with three different eyepieces, including a 20mm, 10mm, and a 4mm eyepiece. Because of that feature, you will be able to choose whether you want to observe specific details of one celestial object or a wide field of view. Add an intriguing community dimension for crowdsourcing observations and the admittedly very expensive eVscope eQuinox seems a next-generation ‘smart telescope’ with a very bright future. As such, to Dupuy, Hestia really represents the link between just looking at pictures of celestial objects and the public being able to go out and actually observe those images for themselves with ease. Like many other models, this one works via a clamp system that can be adjusted to hold your phone in place, with the lens centred over the eyepiece. Telescopes with smartphone adapters included

The Altair Astro self-centering smartphone adaptor is fairly easy to set up and use and it works well.At its core, it's a 2-inch a Go-To refractor, but instead of an eyepiece there's a computer and a Wi-Fi connection. A nice touch is that up to 20 other devices can be connected at one time, enabling groups of people to see what's happening on screen through their own smartphone or tablet. The Celestron Inspire 100AZ is a great option for beginners, and in particular young astronomers who are just setting out on their journey into practical astronomy. The latest version of one of the most famous and well-loved manual phone camera apps, Camera 2 allows you to set shutter speed, ISO and white balance, and there’s a slow shutter mode for exposures of up to 30 seconds. It also lets you capture in raw formats for post-processing. It wasn't too long ago that practical astronomy saw the introduction of Go-To mounts, which offered beginners an electronic mounting set-up that could point a telescope automatically at a given target in the night sky.

Thanks to the multi-user mode that comes with this smart hybrid telescope you can connect the station to up to twenty mobile devices at the same time. That means that you will be able to share all the beautiful views of the night sky and different celestial objects with your family and friends. The optics offer very impressive views of the night sky, with only a slight degree of color fringing that can easily be edited out with the right image editing software. We feel that the Sky-Watcher Startravel is best for lunar and planetary photography, but it's definitely worth dabbling in deep-sky imaging, particularly the shooting of bright deep-sky targets such as the Orion Nebula (Messier 42) and the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31). This smart telescope offers a versatile smartphone adapter that is specially designed to fit most of the smartphones on the market and to keep your smartphone in its place. Because of that feature, you will be able to capture all the beautiful images you see through the telescope.

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It positions the phone at the correct distance from your eyepieceand the right lateral position, enabling you to adjust the exposure and focus to get your image looking good. Sky-Watcher Startravel 120 EQ3-2: Taking a more traditional approach this manual telescope is adaptable both for manual star hopping around the night sky and also for astrophotography, provided you utilize some optional accessories. ★★★½ The platform will allow users to make more challenging observations too, including potentially spotting comets as they pass through the inner solar system, according to the Vaonis CEO. Additionally, while not having a field of view great for observing the other solar system planets, Hestia could allow skywatchers to image the rings of Saturn or even the clouds of Jupiter. Stellina's main hook is that can photograph celestial targets with minimum input from the user, other than a few taps on a tablet or smartphone screen. Neither design has any specific optical advantages, but refracting telescopes tend to be longer and heavier, and those with large objective lenses to match reflecting telescopes tend to be pretty expensive. Reflecting telescopes tend to give you more light gathering power for your money, and because they 'fold' the light path within the barrel, they are a lot shorter. How we test

Our first target was Mars, which shone brightly in the south east. Slewing to the Red Planet as instructed by the app, we noted the screen "zoom in", which prompted us to use the slow-motion controls (which work smoothly enough) to bring our target into focus. The fourth planet from the Sun is an impressive sight through the StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ, especially when we added a 2x Barlow lens. At a magnification of 150x, Mars appears as a sharp disk with the south polar cap visible. This smart refractor telescope features a red dot viewfinder. To use it properly you need to look through the finderscope and find the red dot. Once you see it, adjust the telescope until the dot merges with the object you want to observe and you are good to go. This technique is known as 'eyepiece projection' or 'afocal imaging', and requires a steady hand indeed.The best thing about this smart telescope with a cell phone adapter is that it comes with an erector lens. Thanks to that feature you will be able to choose whether you want to observe the night sky or different terrestrial objects that surround you. Many smartphone astrophotography gadgets let you step outside and start shooting the night sky, but these adapters are great if you own a telescope. This is the universal clip-on removable 8X-12X Zoom Telescope Camera Lens with Manual Focus Telephoto lens ideal for iOS and Android smartphones and tablets. The new version is professional and high clarity and made of high-class glass, it can be used as a monocular directly. Furthermore, this 360 degrees no dark corner can capture more clear picture for you while watching games, concerts, football, basketball, tourism and more. Moreover, it also has ultra light and removable with easy clip, please adjust the focus slowly until getting clear pictures. Simple and easy to use, the max field of vision distance is 260 meter. 7. 18x Optical Zoom Telescope Camera Lens with Tripod for iPhone 5/5s It also holds the phone pretty steady to remove the risk of shakes that will affect your final image. While it's famed for planetary and lunar imaging, the Sky-Watcher SkyMax-180 PRO is also capable of giving fair views of a selection of bright nebulae and galaxies, particularly those that take up a larger section of the sky – the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) and the Orion Nebula (Messier 42) in particular are worthwhile astrophotography targets through this telescope.