SynScan Pro

Pacific Telescope Corp.

About this app

The SynScan hand controller is now available as an app on your smart device. Use this app to control the AZ GTi mount or other Sky-Watcher or Orion telescope mounts fitted with a SynScan Wi-Fi adapter.

This is the Pro version of the SynScan app and contains features suited for expert users using equatorial mounts.

This app supports ASCOM on Windows PC. Driver can be downloaded from www.skywatcher.com or www.telescope.com

Ratings and reviews

App has run smoothly without any crashes or connection issues. While I would love a few extra features like auto dithering, overall it feels like a very complete experience. Setup and alignment are fairly intuitive, but reading the manual definitely helps. Using it with my first eq mount (SA GTI) almost all my frames have had pinpoint stars with 80sec exposures at 200mm on a Canon 7d

This works fine now on Pixel 6 Pro and the SkyWatcher AZ-GTi equatorial! Much improved over previous versions. Using it for both astrophotography and daytime solar observing. It could use a little more polish, like the UI could be reorganized and I hate that you have to hit two buttons in a direction before you can sync. Otherwise, better than IOptron's and has a lot more drive / encoder info than the ZWO apps.

I'm leaving a 5 star review to hopefully offset some of the lousy reviews here. Is it a 5 star app? No. A weak 4 star app, but I have no connectivity issues. It does exactly what it's supposed to do. It's just terrible at context switching. If I want to open something else for astronomy on my phone, there's about a 50/50 chance the app will stay responsive. Half the time, it has crashed when I get back to it. Now, the tracking works well enough that usually doesn't matter, but it's frustrating.

What's new

• Updated user manual/ help page
• AutoHome: fix crash when communication error occurred
• Set minimum Android version to 7 from 6
• PAE: ignore samples that cause conflict (leading to eg AZ tracking hang). When two samples conflict, the more recent one is kept.