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

This app sucks. Almost never works. I've resulted to just using the hand controlled, which unsurprisingly sucks worse, but at least I can get it to work. I do not enjoy scrolling through hundreds of menus without a search function on the controller. Want to see some DSOs? Scroll through hundreds of objects until you get one that is high enough kn the horizon. It is a total PITA.

mostly works fine, but with some major issues. 1. in "tonight's best", some DSO naming is chaotic. Adding Messier/NGC/whatever number system is much more appreciated than only a name. 2. data error in comet catalog. for example, at this date it shows 141P comets M9.6, but actually is M20+ 3. is it possible to skip initial swing for polar alignment? totally waste of time, an option for manual point to star will be much better.

Nothing but headaches. If you take too long to align to the second star in the two-star alignment process, it goes back to square one, and you have to start over. Once I got alignment done, it seemed to work until it wouldn't slew to M57 (Ring Nebula) despite it being directly overhead. Slewed to Vega but not MS 57. Total BS..went back to the handheld. Don't need the frustration.

What's new

• Android: target Android 14. Minimum supported to Android 8.
• SynMatrix AutoAlign
• Auto home: support AZ-EQ mount that has home index.
• Newer mount AZ tracking: make it less likely to fail when using Bluetooth LE