Celestron NexYZ 3-Axis Universal Smartphone Adapter

The Celestron NexYZ 3-Axis Universal Smartphone Adapter is a versatile accessory that allows you to connect your smartphone to a telescope, microscope, or binoculars and capture stunning images through your favorite optic. This adapter is designed to hold your smartphone securely in place and align its camera with the optical axis of the instrument, ensuring that you can capture clear and steady images or videos of celestial objects and other subjects.

The Celestron NexYZ 3-Axis Universal Smartphone Adapter features a three-axis adjustment mechanism, allowing you to precisely align and position your smartphone to achieve the best possible image quality.

Product Features in Detail

Celestron NexYZ 3-Axis Universal Smartphone Adapter

The Celestron NexYZ 3-Axis Universal Smartphone Adapter provides you everything you need to capture sharp, detailed images and video.

Easy as X-Y-Z

What makes NexYZ’s patented design different from other smartphone adapters? The three-axis adjustment. Most adapters rely on you placing your phone perfectly on the platform and only offer limited adjustment in two axes. But NexYZ gives you the power to place your phone on the platform, center it over the eyepiece with the X and Y knobs, and then move up or down over the eyepiece until you have the entire field of view in your shot.

And even though this adjustment is ultra-precise, it’s still quicker and easier to use than other adapters. From start to finish, the process only takes about 30 seconds, including the time it takes to insert the phone into NexYZ, attach NexYZ to an eyepiece, start the camera app, and center the camera over the eyepiece using the knobs.

Switching phones, eyepieces, or optical instruments, requires only slight adjustments to re-center the camera over the new eyepiece. If multiple people want to capture a shot through your optic, NexYZ’s simple spring-loaded clamps make it easy to remove one device and replace it with another in seconds. NexYZ is the ideal solution for star parties and group bird walks where everyone wants their own shot of the action.

Patented NexYZ Smartphone Adapter

NexYZ fits any eyepiece from 35mm to 60mm in diameter, including telescopes equipped with 1.25” or 2” eyepieces, spotting scopes, monoculars, and binoculars. It also attaches to microscopes with the addition of an included adapter ring, which takes the usable diameter down to 25mm, the size of a standard microscope eyepiece.

NexYZ accommodates a wide range of smartphones including the larger “phablets” like the iPhone 11 Plus and latest Samsung Galaxy devices. The phone platform is fully adjustable and can fit any device—usually with the case still on. The secure platform stands up to the weight of these heavier devices with ease, thanks to NexYZ’s strong metal spring and threaded twist lock. Should you need to tighten the tension on each axis for a customized secure connection, click the Support & Downloads tab to read our NexYZ Tension Adjustment Guide.