It also holds the phone pretty steady to remove the risk of shakes that will affect your final image. Another great thing about this smart WiFi telescope is that it comes with two different eyepieces to ensure you get the best view. Because of that feature, you will be able to choose the magnifying power at which you want to observe a specific object. So-called 'night mode' has been in fashion for smartphone cameras for the last few years. Enabled by bigger sensors that are more sensitive to light, flagship smartphones can now take excellent photographs in low-light conditions, such as twilight. So what about in 'no light'? Another great thing about this smart telescope wit a smartphone adapter is that it comes with a powerful 3x Barlow lens. To get the best view of specific details you need to combine the desired eyepiece with the Barlow lens and it will triple the magnifying power of the eyepiece.

This one’s a bit of a novelty, but it can produce some usable results. Often touted as a flagship feature, the presence of a ‘Moon mode’ on a smartphone camera is a giveaway that the manufacturer is providing a new all-powerful digital ‘periscope’ lens. On such cameras you just point your smartphone’s camera at the Moon, spread your fingers on the viewfinder to adjust the zoom to 10x or more, and your smartphone will use artificial intelligence to automatically recognise the Moon using feature detection and recommend ‘Moon mode' to help optimize the shot. Cue a half-decent close-up for which your smartphone already knows the detail and color sharpening settings for. A great way to see if collimation is the problem is to point the telescope at a bright star and adjust the focus so that the star is out of focus and showing as a big blob. Look closely and you will see a bright outer ring surrounding a dark central disc. If the dark disc is not in the center of the bright ring then the optics are not aligned and you need to collimate.We used the NexYZ with a Stargate 500 GoTo Dobsonian, an Equinox 80 ED refractor and our 100mm spotting scope. Celestron Inspire 100AZ: This 4 inch/100mm refractor telescope has a clever lens cap that doubles as a smartphone clamp with which it's possible to photograph and even video the Moon, planets and deep-sky objects in space using just a smartphone. ★★★★

Vaonis says that Hestia is designed for every type of celestial target and will work for solar photography during the day as well as moon and “deep sky” photography at night.This smart refractor telescope comes with two different eyepieces. Thanks to that feature you will be able to choose the magnifying power at which you want to observe the desired object. Use the 26mm eyepiece to observe a wide field of view or a 9mm eyepiece to observe specific details on one object.