Many people are familiar with Wi-Fi control of gadgets and this is appealing to astrophotographers who enjoy using a lightweight and portable mount and controlling it with a smartphone. Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer 2i Pro Pack’s Wi-Fi adaptorīy adding an in-built Wi-Fi adaptor, Sky-Watcher has brought the Star Adventurer into the 21st century. It a stunning piece of kit for any astrophotographer. Overall, the addition of Wi-Fi to the Star Adventurer 2i Pro Pack gives a new string to its bow and makes We stacked 9 of the Pleiades exposures for an image and if conditions had allowed, we would have been able to leave it running for more with a great result.įinally, on the night before Jupiter and Saturn’s Great Conjunction we tested the mount and our Equinox 80ED refractor, using both a DSLR and ASI 224 colour camera, to capture the close encounter.
Next, we set it at 400mm and tried the Pleiades, achieving two–minute exposures. With the lens set at 100mm we observed Orion’s heart and achieved five-minute exposures with no trailing. Satisfied that the mount functions well with a wide-field lens, we replaced the ball head with the dovetail L-bracket and counterweight to try it with our 100–400mm lens. Although light pollution and a slightly hazy atmosphere did not help, a 20-minute exposure revealed pin sharp stars. We took a 30–minute exposure of the constellations of Cassiopeia down to Perseus with only slight star trailing.
Once polar-aligned, we programmed a range of timings using the app with the Canon 50D and its 18–55mm lens set at 18mm. We found the app had lots of functions and was very easy to use its primary function is to set the tracking rate and length, and number of exposures, all of which can be stored, which is handy for repeated use.
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