Telescope Phone Mount

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So I saw this piece of software which was available for my phone that as long as the telescope is parallel to the telescope tube it will basically act as a PUSH-TO system by telling you to point you scope left, right, up , or down to center on the object. I thought it was amazing. However - I had an issue of how to get my phone securely flay on a cylindrical surface. As usual OpenSCAD was the answer. I designed a phone mount for my iphone7+ and its case than can be glued, drilled, or 2 super thin strips of double sided adhesive. I also however designed it so that you can change your phones measurements and change the circumference of the tube in the program. My tube turned-out to be smaller than the 144mm sized advertised - so measure the circumference in mm and the rest of the needed values will calculate from there. This will assure a perfect fit to the curvature of the tube. This is the program I downloaded to use with the mount - and yes it works. https://astro.ecuadors.net/polar-scope-align/