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Pls fix (AI slop?):
Unsupported: Smartphone Eyepiece Adapter
Eyepiece adapters hold the phone’s camera over the eyepiece so you can photograph through the telescope. AstroHelm does not support this configuration. The field of view is typically too small for plate solving to work
“After that, whatever I called for was in the field of view, even when I was using a 5mm eyepiece.”
They mean that the FOV seen by the phone through an eyepiece is too small to run a successful plate solve.
The comment of the user says "the plate solve was precise enough that the object I wanted was centered (for the observer, not for the phone) when I used a 5mm eyepiece" (which is usually an high-power, meaning tiny-FOV eyepiece)
Most pointing methods aren't accurate enough to correctly center an object at high power and require you to use a lower power eyepiece, nudge the object a bit, then switch to high power. I understand how you read it as slop but the two sentences aren't contradictory, and the user comment hints to an useful pointing tool :)
Edit : bad tenses and grammar fixes