NexYZ – Universal Smartphone Adapter for Telescope, Binoculars & Spotting Scopes – 3-Axis Precision Alignment – Capture Images & Video Through Your Optics – Compact and Travel-Friendly

Works great with my Pixel 2xl! I tried another mount first (one of the cheaper ones that basically just screws clamps down on the phone and eyepiece) and they were extremely difficult to line up as any looseness necessary to adjust would allow the phone to move way more than was possible to control, and locking it down again would throw off adjustment again, plus the mount pressed down on the buttons on the phone, preventing proper use while in the mount. This mount is spring loaded for the phone holder, so placing the phone in is quick, easy and secure, plus it doesn't push down on the phone's buttons. There are adjustments for the X, Y and Z plane, so once the phone is in place, all it takes is adjustments of three knobs to line the phone up. I was unable to line up the other mount in any sort of reasonable amount of time or effort. This mount was lined up in about a minute. The clamp spring that holds the eyepiece is not strong enough to hold the phone level, but that's not an issue as there's a 'safety lock', which when screwed tight, keeps the clamp from opening, and securely holding the holder to the eyepiece. The X/Y/Z motion might be too loose when you get the mount to hold the phone steady in certain orientations, however there are small screws on the mount which control the force necessary to move those knobs, which can be adjusted from very loose to unmoveable. The manual does not cover this at all, which might explain some of the bad reviews, but once you know about them and adjust them as needed, you won't have any issues. The only 'issue' I've had is that the phone's camera is wide enough of an angle that there is vignetting on the corners of the image. This isn't an issue with the mount, but more of an issue with the focal length of the phone's camera, and the FOV of the eyepiece itself. If your phone has a 'zoom' lens or portrait mode, or perhaps if you have much more expensive eyepieces than I have with wider FOVs, then this might not be an issue. The image can also be zoomed in, digitally, or the final image cropped. Something to keep in mind. Great mount. Highly recommended.

This is a high quality complex cellphone mount. It requires no instructions really, due to the adjustments on it being self explanatory. It fit my pixel even with the otter case left on.

Before you read this; I am very new to this hobby, I’ve only had my telescope for just over 2 months. I bought this because I wanted to share the views I was getting with friends and family via social networks. That being said... The NeXYZ performs fairly well. The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is through no fault of its own. There is a lot of vibrations when attached to focuser (I figure because of its total weight with the phone in it) so I’d suggest using a timer. I also suggest getting an app that allows for exposure and ISO settings (look for DSLR Camera in the App Store). The phone I’m using is an iPhone 8 with an otter box case. The phone fits well and I’m comfortable with how much grip the device has to hold it securely. I’m using this on a Celestron 130 SLT with a 5.5mm Meade 5000 series EP and a 10mm Celestron Luminos EP. The NeXYZ is large enough to handle the large Eye Pieces but on the Luminos you need to set it so it doesn’t unscrew the eye relief piece (I found that hanging it at an angle of 4 o’clock works fine). The wonderful thing about the NeXYZ is the ability to move on all 3 axis’s. I have read just about every review for this on Amazon and yes, there is some fine tuning that is needed when trying to align the phone with the eye piece. I feel the device is well built and should hold me over until I can afford to do astrophotography with a real camera. In all, I would recommend this product. I have combed all of the internet and for my money this was the best option and well worth it. (Pictures: Orion Nebula, Moon, the $.99 app that I’m using)

It works well with my Celestron Nexstar 8se & iPhone 13 promax. I just haven’t gotten proficient with using it yet, but it is far superior than the adapters that don’t have 3 axis. It was also less expensive than the Celestron website.

I was very excited to try this out, but unfortunately, I cannot use it. The problem is that in order to take pictures using a telescope you MUST have a remote trigger to take the photos (even with more sturdy adapters, a la DSLR astrophotography), or you will not get usable pictures due to vibration of the image from touching the phone to take a picture. When using a cell phone, that means you must either have a trigger that uses the headphone jack (which are all but extinct on high-end phones these days), or a set of usb-c earbuds with a volume control (you can set most camera apps to use the volume control to snap pics). The problem with this latter situation, which is the one I'm in, is that the mount blocks the bottom center of the phone, where all usb-c charging ports are located. This also means that you cannot charge your phone while it is installed in the adapter. As such, I will regretfully be returning this product since the only reason I bought it was to take pictures from my telescope without having to purchase a laptop (required with dedicated AP cameras). If anyone from Celestron is reading this, I would STRONGLY suggest making the next revision with a nice sized hole in the bottom of the phone part of the mount. This way, users can pass a wire through to the usb-c port for charging, or more importantly, shutter control. This would still work fine for live viewing, or perhaps for hooking up to a microscope where vibration is less of an issue, but is entirely useless for taking pictures from a telescope eyepiece.

Ok, so some people have noted the mount can be loose and the phone will not stay in position. This is a case where RTFM (Read The Fine Manual) would have saved the day. Each axis has two adjustment screws that tune the tension of the linear rails increasing the stability of the mount. Look up "NexYZ tension adjustment" on Google for the manual and watch my review video. Overall this mount exceeds my expectations. It is far sturdier than I expected, but not as sturdy as it could have been but enough to easily trust my note 20 ultra to it. Is it worth the money? Absolutely. Does it work as well as I would have liked? Not as well as I would have liked. However, this is the best mobile device digiscopeing mount I've found. It has metal rack and pinion gearing and well thought out adjustment mechanisms. It has generous fitment; a Note 20 Ultra fits with room to spare. The Eyepiece arm has excellent fitment and a very good tension adjustment mechanism. It works well on my large 2" Mead QX eyepiece. My real issue with it is the need to be able to move the phone out of the way to position, and reposition. The phone back over the eyepiece for long exposure. Secondly, you WILL need counterbalance weight if you are using a GOTO telescope. Please please please for the sake of your poor telescope's gears, do not use this without balancing your scope with your eyepiece, mount, and phone. Those are minor gripes and definitely not a deal breaker. There is no way you could get me to send it back. By far the best mount.

This clamps onto the 1.25" eyepiece of my telescope. Two knobs control the x-y positioning. There is a spring loaded clamp that holds your smart phone. All in all it's very sturdy. I have 3 smart phones, ( I also tested my wife's ) We have the (Ultra-Pro) style phones with 4 camera lenses. But it handled them with no problems, I suspect it even take phones slightly larger. But no where your camera lenses are on the phone, it adapts to the phone very well. There is also a tightening nut to tighten the clamp for the eye-piece. This works well also. It came with two rubber sleeves for eye-pieces. These will keep your eye-pieces from getting scratched up. I've only taken a few pictures with it so far, but it's much easier to use this than trying to line up your cell phone by hand for every picture. You can even use your cell phone as a video monitor for your eyepiece. I will say that when using the standard Plossi type eye-piece, you can see the circle of the eye-piece in your pictures. This isn't really a problem, you can crop it out with picture editing software.

I rarely write reviews, but I was so disappointed in this product that I am making an exception. I am mostly interested in visual observing astronomy, but like anyone else sometimes you see something so spectacular that you'd like to get a picture of it, and this item sounds like the perfect solution. However I found that there were two major problems in general and one specifical to my setup. The first major problem was that the plastic flexes due to the weight of the phone. I have a large Motorola Edge Plus 5G UW 22 that I tried first. Get it all set, let go and it would all go out the window because the plastic flexed and the camera position/angle shifted and lost the view in the eyepiece. Tried a smaller (and lighter) iPhone SE, same problem. Second major problem was that the settings didn't stay in place, particularly the Y axis. Eventually I found that there are set screws that can tighten this up, one of the set screws was backed out so far it was almost falling out. After tightening these down the problem was considerably better, but it struck me as either poor QA or possible a previously owned and returned unit. The last issue was that this added too much weight to the end of my SLT tracking mount such that not only could it not track the object anymore, it couldn't even stay stationary. I could move the telescope forward on the dovetail but not enough to fully counteract the hefty weight added by this contraption and the phone. My guess is the person who has the type of telescope mount to counteract this won't be using a NexYZ for astrophotography. I wanted to like this, and perhaps it works well for some applications, but it was a bad fit for me.