Star Adventurer Console

Skywatcher Apps Team

About this app

This is the official companion app for Star Adventurer mini (SAM) and Star Adventurer 2i camera mount manufactured by Sky-Watcher.

Use this app to program the camera mount for astrophotography and time-lapse photography. It can also help a Sky-watcher equatorial mount user to do polar alignment with the polar scope.

For more, visit www.skywatcher.com

Ratings and reviews

Update to my previous 1 star review, as others said before me, you have to go to the website and download it there to your phone. It will give you messages not to trust this provider but do it anyway. Then, make sure to enable location services for this app. I haven't used it in the real world, but at least it doesn't crash on start up. Still not happy about having to jump through hoops just to run a simple app for such a high tech device. 😑

At first the app dosent work, it's just crashes. After reading reviews you need to go on the Sky Watcher website, find software and Firmware updates and click on SynScan App and find the latest update and click download. At first it won't download (at least for my security settings) you need to authorize the download. Once it downloads the app will work right away.

Used to work fine on older phone. Won't even connect to WiFi on android 12 Xperia 1, although app does open, can't use it. Appears to work fine on ios, but don't really want to bring a second phone/tablet along to simply get it to run. I have had the mini a few years now, so I suppose this is a lesson. Hardware that cannot be used without an app is likely to become a paperweight unless the app is continually updated and reviewed.

What's new

Target Android 14