No eyepiece at all — a sensor, a phone and a stack · review
An 8 MP electronic eyepiece camera that replaces the eyepiece in a 1.25 in focuser and streams live video to a computer over USB, with an IR-cut filter fitted.
The bottom line A competent little planetary camera filed among the smart telescopes — excellent on the Moon, and oversold on deep sky.
A camera in a 1.25 in barrel. Take the eyepiece out, put this in, focus, and the view appears on a laptop. There is no telescope here, no mount and no optics beyond the sensor window; everything depends on the instrument it is fitted to.
M28.5 × 0.6 — the thread, not just the barrel size. That is the filter thread every 1.25 in eyepiece carries, and naming it means the supplied IR-cut filter and any other 1.25 in filter can be swapped with confidence.
The maker’s last bullet credits the camera with capturing nebulae and galaxies clearly. A short-exposure USB camera of this class is at its best on bright targets — the Moon, the planets, double stars — where thousands of quick frames can be stacked. Faint extended objects need long exposures and cooling, and this is neither.
Pixel size. It is the number that decides whether a camera suits a given focal length, and without it the sampling cannot be worked out on paper. The 8 MP count and the frame rates are published; the pixel pitch is not.
German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores ran from 96 € to 106 € on the day of the survey.
American Amazon store lists it in local currency, which the euro range above sets aside.
British Amazon catalogue holds a record for it that nobody is selling.
Figures as Keepa reported them on the day this page was last updated. Stock and pricing shift without warning.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 17 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Aperture | Not published by the maker. |
|---|---|
| Sensor | 8 MP, per the maker |
| Pixel size | Not published by the maker. |
| Field of view | Not published by the maker. |
| Plate-solving | Not published by the maker. |
| Tracking | Not published by the maker. |
| Stacking behaviour | 1080p at 60 fps, 4K at 30 fps, as the maker states them |
| Battery life | Not published by the maker. |
| File export | USB, UVC class — no driver required per the maker · Windows 10 and 11, macOS 12 and later, Linux, as the maker lists them |
| Amazon reference | B0F3BXHZQP (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces) |
| EAN | 0704444182307 |
Yes. There is no screen and no card slot: the image goes out over USB to a computer running any UVC-compatible software. That is the trade for the low price and light weight.
Silicon sensors see well into the infrared, where most telescope optics do not focus at the same point. Cutting it keeps the image sharp; the maker also credits it with reducing light pollution, which is a much weaker claim.
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