Corne de Klerk

15 minutes ago, happy-kat said:

Hi

If your telescope tube is metal it may cause some interference with the mobile phone and accuracy of where the phone thinks it is pointing.

Ideally for minimal weight disturbance I would look to place the mobile on the telescope tube above the mounts pivot point.

Free apps are like Google Sky and then paid app I think SkyEyePro has a push to for locating objects.

This post might give you ideas on how you could make something work and there is a great link within that thread for more ideas.

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Cheers! thanks very much. Will read up on that topic

Hi Everyone. Hoping you can guide me in the right direction or give some advice. 
I was given a Celestron Astromaster 70AZ telescope as a gift and have so far managed to locate and view Jupiter with an Android app. 

I subsequently came across a youtube clip were the guy demonstrated on how to add a DSLR / mobile phone adapter to his telescope as a way to converting his budget telescope to a push / go-to by clipping his mobile phone on top of his telescope and using the star finder app, be able to locate his target and then using his finder scope.  Please note that I am not trying to Astrophotography (yet).

However, I am unable to find any mounting clips / mobile phone adapters I can buy to add onto my telescope. Any suggestions or ideas how I can make this work? 

Below is what I mean on how I want to attach my mobile phone on top of my telescope.

Your help will be appreciated!

AC
South Africa

1 hour ago, gajjer said:

If you set the telescope mount to look at a fixed point in the sky, the earths rotation means that the object will have moved out of view in a very short time. 

Cheers

Gaj

Many thanks! Makes completely sense. A lot to learn

Hi Everyone. Newbie to stargazing as well. Was given a Celestron Astromaster 70AZ / 70mm refractor telescope as a gift and tried my first stargazing last night. 
I am based in the southern hemisphere and wanted to view Jupiter which means that it is located high in the sky and thus I had to fully tilt the telescope to point towards the planet. I managed to find Jupiter however when I wanted to show my family, the telescope moved on its own and it took me a couple of minutes to find it again. 
The question is: Is it the AZ mount that is moving even though I tightened the AZ handle and how can I prevent this? Same suggestion as per the previous discussion?

Many thanks!