Orion
®
SteadyPix™ Quick Smartphone
Telescope Photo Adapter
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INSTRUCTION MANUAL
Introduction
Congratulations on your purchase of the Orion SteadyPix Quick Smartphone Telescope
Photo Adapter!
It’s an improved design that is simple to use, sturdy, and is compatible
with even the biggest smartphones on the market today. The SteadyPix Quick securely
couples your smartphone to a standard 1.25" telescope eyepiece, enabling the capture
of high-magnification digital photographs through the telescope using the smartphone’s
built-in camera. Use it with telescopes, spotting scopes, binoculars, or even monoculars
– in daytime or at night. It holds your phone’s camera steady and in exactly the correct
position relative to the instrument’s eyepiece to give a perfectly framed and focused
image shot after shot – which is virtually possible when trying to hold the phone up to
the eyepiece by hand.
The SteadyPix Quick also lets you display a live view of the image projected by your
telescope on your smartphone screen, which is perfect for sharing real-time views of
the Moon or planets with friends and family. The smartphone becomes a mini display
monitor!
We hope you have fun taking pictures with your smartphone using the
SteadyPix Quick!
Compatibility
The Orion SteadyPix Quick is designed to fit slate style (flat) smartphones measuring
up to 3-3/4" in width (including any case or bumper), and of any length. The phone’s
camera lens should be oriented near the top of the back side for unobstructed align-
ment with a telescope eyepiece.
The SteadyPix Quick was designed with an adjustable, foam-padded bracket to allow
compatibility with most currently available smartphones, including large ones like the
iPhone 7 Plus and Samsung Galaxy Note phones.
For best results we recommend removing any case or bumper from the phone before
installing it in the SteadyPix Quick. Even if the phone fits with the case left on, it may
prevent the phone’s camera lens from getting close enough to the telescope eyepiece,
which could result in a constricted “keyhole” field of view on the phone screen. When
the camera is allowed to get as close as possible to the telescope’s eyepiece, the image
from the telescope or binocular will fill up much more of the phone’s screen.
The SteadyPix Quick can be used with virtually any size or type of telescope – refractor,
reflector, or Cassegrain-type – that utilizes a standard 1.25"-diameter telescope eye-
piece. The included twist-tight eyepiece turret fits eyepieces with housing diameters
from 24mm to 45mm.
IN 599 08/17
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