Sky-Watcher What's Up? Webcast: SynScan Pro App Overview

Sky-Watcher What's Up? Webcast: SynScan Pro App Overview
(Episode 104)

We take a close look at our SynScan Pro app and the in's and out's of the app. Join us as we dive into the app and what you can do to control your scope wirelessly.

What's Up? webcast take place right here on the Sky-Watcher USA YouTube channel every Friday from 10am to 11am Pacific.

[Real-Tecnica]

Very informative video glad I watched it through it's entirety definitely did not know it had a built intervalometer

[alexanderwilson]

Good walk through and Informative as a old Astronomer I can find most things visually but I like the clear and uncluttered view in this

[mejksonnenschein]

Your video/tutorial is very informative and really helped me. Thank you for your effort!

[tonupnolid]

thank you. very insightful. my mount was delivered 4 days ago and the boxed manual is quite basic. this has demistified a lot of what I was staring at on the app

[catherinegrimes]

Great video. This will help me out for photographing the eclipse.

[barbaraharris]

One nice feature for this app is to someway be able to sync your user defined objects list to multiple devices. Now you would have to create the list on every device that you use

[MrTacdriver]

I use the Android Syncscan with my EQ6r pro via wifi adapter. I don't have a view of polaris so per the help menu I first do a two star alignment, then do a syncscan polar alignment off of a neighboring star. I then slew back to home and then switch over to astrophotography tool and plate solve. This works very well for me. I tried loading eqmod/astrophotography tool off of the alignment star but I could not find a way to sync the alignment data from syncscan to eqmod. I have to go back to home first and then platesolve in APT.

[gunnarjensen]

I use it on my 10 inch flextube dobsonian, with the small wifi remote. And when it downloads the Alt/AZ coordinates (and elevation over sea-level?) from my smartphone, it works like a dream, but when the connection (or I) fails, it moves around in any direction. I was not sure if I should use it with the Celestron SkySync GPS accessory or on its own ? I got the SkySync also, but have not figured out how to use it. With the hand controller or the Star-Sense controller ????

[johndrummond]

Gosh, you need a telescope to see the fonts on the GUI!

[newbee]

Why wont the moon and the sun be mentioned in the app when they are both above the horizon? I have got my other problem sorted now all I have to do is get SynScan and Sky Safari to talk to the mount. Cheers Robert Aust'

[tamartin]

The location will be where your server is located if you do not use a smart phone. So, connect by wifi through your smart phone first - all location and time will load correctly.then, open the app on your computer and again connect. Now you can run APT or NINA, etc through ASCOM.

[JoeBob]

What happened to the diagnostics feature? It isn't there anymore...
I could really do with it because I'm constantly having conversation timeout issues in Station Mode, with NINA and PHD2, even though I have a very good connection.
It's like a request going to the mount gets lost, or else the mount doesn't respond every so often.

[williemacdonald]

I have just received my GTi and I am beginning to unpick the synscan app, still waiting on clear skies but that's the norm. I would love to see an option for shooting mosaics in the app. I'm sure there are ways of doing it with computer control but I haven't a clue how to even try that.

[gunnarjensen]

One question. Does the 10 inch flextube have an inbuilt wifi already ? I think it worked without any accessories once ?

[jsmarks]

When you click on the polar ap icon, do you see the polar clock

[MickyMouseLimited]

How do you get it to connect to home network over wifi? It works when you are using it as a hot spot but the moment you change the settings to use a router it just doesn't connect and remains active as a hot spot mode.

[andysim]

Got my Az Gte to work with Sky Safari Pro. Love just being able to click on something and click goto and it goes to it with no fuss and is accurate enough to get objects into the field of my 5mm eyepiece. 😀😀

[jefflucas_life]

Wonderful product, I highly recommend this product when your out nicely warm in your car 🚘 and tent 🏕.

[Ed-yjts]

In basic equatorial mode (polar aligned) but not doing star alignment, it seems one needs to go to settings to deselect 0.5X Sidereal and select 1x Sidereal as well as tell tracker to track. Question. When using star alignment and goto, does the app know to set the correct tracking speeds?

[cgb]

Is it true north or magnetic north for az mounts ?