hey guys welcome back finally after a long couple of months I am checking out the telescope which I got from light in the Box calm this is the Phoenix f3 60 53 6050 being the focal length which is 360 and 15 millimeters being the diameter of the lens inside now this is a cheap entry-level telescope which you can get if you're interested in astronomy or spying on your neighbor just kidding that's creepy you can get it for $29 on light in the box comm I leave a link in description box below let's unbox it and dive into it right away if gadget reviews DIY projects and life hacks Aurea saying then consider subscribing to my booth and turn on the Bell notifications so you don't miss out on any of the action inside the box we have a quite a few confidence so let's go through them one by one first is the telescope then we have a 34 centimeters tall tripod and that involved to mount the scope onto the tripod two eyepieces one is a Hugin 20 millimeters this is the focal length of the eyepiece by the way as you can see here with an SH 20mm and the second is an H 6mm eyepiece you can see I have wrapped some electrical tape around both of them and I'll let you know why in a while finally in the box we have an erecting I piece with an additional zoom of 1.5 X if you're new to telescopes let me give you a brief intro the main body of the telescope usually has a lens or a mirror or both like this one there is an objective lens in the front and there's a mirror inside this part it uses these mirrors and lens to gather light from an object to form an image on the mirror and then the eyepiece will magnify it so you can observe details in the image the eyepiece goes in here and you can tighten it with the screw on the side now on the telescope body you can see the focal length mentioned is 360 millimeters to calculate how much magnification you're getting from the IPS simply divide the focal length of the telescope by the focal length of the eyepiece for example we have a 20 millimetres eyepiece so our total magnification for this eyepiece will be 360 divided by 20 which is 18x also called as 18 power and for this eyepiece which is labeled 6 millimeters the magnification will be 60 X you can also move the telescope sideways and up and down to help you focus on an object once you have the whole thing set up you can get down to business simply by peeping into the eyepiece now you won't see a crisp image right away you have to adjust the focus by turning any of these two wheels back and forth until you have a sharp picture now the real question was how do I show you guys what I'm seeing so I order this little contraption from another website for about $10 this allows you to mount any smartphone onto any scope it is super sturdy and has very good build quality you can place your phone in it and align the camera through the center of the viewing window once done place the eyepiece in there and tighten it and once again make sure it is in line with the camera lens now when I did this the first time I realized the eyepiece was still moving freely so I went ahead and wrapped a good couple of layers of electrical tape on it and that did the trick now it is a tight fit and I can mount it easily on the telescope now let's have a look at something let's go for the top of that building which is a good couple of hundred meters away and I'm just gonna aim at the top peak of the building first with the 18 X lens all right that's so pretty okay not that great the edges are all blurry I'm lowering the exposure a little bit to get a little clearer image actually I would suggest you use it without the phone I am noticing the phone is not able to do justice to the picture of clarity it is much more clear when viewed directly I'm just using the phone to give you some perspective I even tried applying the two X optical zoom from my phone just for fun and I have to say the zoom is pretty impressive now I'll try the same thing with the 60 X lens now this lens is labeled moon and it also has a green coded piece of glass or I think clear plastic as you can see this is just a piece of glass and not a lens and this is usually there to reduce glare and improve contrast when viewing something very brightly lit like the moon for example however I'm gonna remove it for now and see how it looks without it as you can see this time there aren't that many blurry edges and image is pretty clear I used the legs of the tripod to move the scope up and down slightly which is enough to scanned speak of the building at this magnification moving the scope itself causes a lot of shaking I also try taking a short video with a green tint on and as you can see it is better without it for now anyways I'm just gonna run a couple of samples for you while I continue with my script now this is a cheap telescope so don't expect much from the build quality pointing it to something specific and take a while and that is because there is a little bit of a play especially in the eyepiece area at high levels of magnification this is not really a good thing if you're gonna view it directly with your eye it's fine but with the added weight of the phone and the phone mount it can become quite fidgety and difficult to focus the optics are not of the best quality but they do a pretty good job the H in each 20mm stands for Hugin which is one type of eyepiece out of about four or five different ones and these ones are on the lower end of performance and price some telescopes will show you the image upside down so you'll need an adductor eyepiece to make the image upright luckily this one has diagonal mirrors so you don't need that the image however is horizontally flipped the Elector eyepiece that comes with it basically just gives an additional 1.5 x zoom you can place it in like this and then the eyepiece goes on top of this so basically the 18 X becomes 27 X and the 60 becomes 90 X with this added it becomes even more difficult to take a stable shot with the phone however when this was shipped to me it was opened in the customs and that's where the instruction manual disappeared and I'm assuming something went missing from this eyepiece as well cause I have tried every single way to mount it and haven't been able to get a clear image it is simply a blur I even unscrewed it and turned the lens inside the other way but still nothing if you guys have any idea on how to make it work please let me know in the comments below anyways now that you have viewed a couple of samples with 18 and 60 X let's move to the star of the show or shall I say the moon of the show now this guy was a little cloudy and the moon was a day short of full and this is the best I could do this is just with the phone to give you a starting point to compare with you know this is with the 18x now it took a lot of time to align the phone perfectly and then I just let it stay there while moon slowly drifted on its course once again I repeat the phone camera is not doing justice to what I can see directly it is much more enjoyable without it once the moon moves into the upper quadrant then you can see their craters on the bottom right corner of the moon become sharper at least in the phone it is clear now I'm seeing it that way since the beginning I try to apply the 10x digital zoom on my phone and this is what I got not that great really I tried taking an image and then sharpened it a bit and it turned out pretty cool I own put it on my instep age by the way if you're still not following you should really do so you know anyways this is with the 60 X I have to admit even though the magnification is greater with this eyepiece it is not as clear as with the first one especially with the green coating on somehow I forgot to take another shot without the green coating but I will do it very soon on my YouTube stories so keep an eye out for that if you pay close attention and wait for a couple of seconds you can see the moon moving in real time and this is not a sped up video all in all I kinda like it the build quality is not that good you can feel the cheap plastic and the lightweight tripod some of the parts are fidgety and getting a stable shot needs some getting used to I'm not even sure if it is actually giving the amount of magnification it says but based on the craters I can see on the moon and that too with the 18 X I'm gonna say I like it and at $29 the price to performance ratio is reasonable it is a nice gift for kids and people who are just starting or getting interested in astronomy and it won't break the bank either I leave a link in the description box below in case you want to check it out that's it for now guys if you enjoyed this video please hit that like button below and subscribe to my booth for more gadget reviews life hacks and facts you can also follow me on Instagram Facebook Twitter and Instructables all the links on the description box below click on the thumbnails to watch my other videos or check out my 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