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Review on πŸ“‘ Enhance Your Celestron Experience: SkyPortal WiFi Module for Smartphone-Controlled Telescope by Mayrando Clark

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I tried many times. This evening it connected perfectly in the house both via direct WiFi and via hotspot. The sight moved normally and everything was fine with the surrounding world. I move the scope to the docking station from the outside and set it up - the connection broke after about a 45 second walk to my backyard. After the reboot, reboot and it doesn't even show the Celestron as a working WiFi hotspot. After a few hours of frustration, I gave up and put everything back in. He connected and ran like an inner champion again. As I turned the telescope on and off several times, I found that it appeared to be set up like a slot machine. It pays off often enough to make you think you'll see something good out of it in the end. Do not be fooled. Take your wallet and go to the buffet. You have $100 extra dollars. Follow up: I just finished another attempt to use this item. The Sky Portal app is finally aligned the way it should be. I managed to combine the three brightest stars in about 25 minutes. I told him to find Chapel. It was quite a lot. I manually adjusted the view to center the star and tried to update the alignment by telling it to align with that star. He informed me that I was too far away to align with this star, even though I was looking at it right in the center of my telescope. I've tried Mars, Aldebaran, and Bellatrix. Got the same answer. I disconnected and picked up the phone. A precise hit every time. Also, I was trying to move the crosshair to align it with the three target stars and suddenly the left/right or up/down arrows would click and point the crosshair across the sky. I nudged it lightly two or three times and almost centered it, and then it went out again. The app sucks.

Pros
  • EXTENDED CONTENT AND AUDIO DESCRIPTION. As you watch, view astroimages and listen to audio descriptions of hundreds of popular objects including the planets, the Orion Nebula, the globular cluster Hercules and more.
Cons
  • You could choose a newer model