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Old 23-12-2014, 12:26 PM
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Mobile phone finderscope mount - any good?

I noticed this new product on myastroshop. It allows you to mount your mobile phone onto a Vixen/Synta style finderscope dovetail.

http://myastroshop.com.au/products/d...p?id=MAS-017G1


I've often wondered how well my mobile phone would work as a digital setting circle. Has anyone tried this or similar? From what I've read there can be challenges with the scope/mount causing magnetic interference, plus the question of the accuracy of the phone's sensors in the first place. My phone is a Galaxy S3.

I'm wondering how well this might work with a small scope on an alt-az mount (even a camera tripod) for finding some of the brighter deep sky objects (or Comet Lovejoy).

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