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Hi,
I use rubber band to attach my phone to the finder scope of my dob. A crude diagram below, if you dont understand it, I will draw a better picture. The phone and the finderscope arent doing anything together, its just a simple place to mount a phone. Then I open Skeye (I have the pro version, but i think simple version can do this too) Find a bright star in dob, and then click indirect mode on app, and then tell it what I am looking at. Repeat for a few more bright stars. And now I use it as a push-to guidance system. Find a object in the search menu and it till tell you how to push it, or push it and it will tell you what you are looking at. Sometimes it works quite well...sometimes I need to jiggle the scope around a bit.
I do sometimes get strange magnetic field warnings, probably due to the fact that is the touching my metal finderscope. I intended to mount it the scope body using a plastic car phone holder, but never got around to it.
O=====o <= look through here to use finder
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look at phone from here
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