Celestron 93969 SkySync GPS Accessory, Black

I'm giving this max stars. It's an addition I failed to purchase awhile back. But I'll now say your telescope is going to like it and function even better in alignment procedure. Speeds things up and near automatic to use. Gets its power from the aux port. Mine is the compact 4SE and worked great this evening. Sky's were more than hazy. Used an extra wide Meade 40MM eyepiece. Easily handles the larger Deep Sky. Sky so hazy even had difficulty centering the brighter stars in the finder! You have to go to the menu and find GPS, then turn it on! I was so slow fumbling in the dark gave enough minutes for the GPS to acquire satellites. This unit also puts in the correct time, easy to make a mistake here on the first outings. Area for Hercules Cluster wouldn't show due to poor sky's but area for andromeda our nearest neighbor came right in just off center of the low power eyepiece. Sizeable smudge. Polaris refused to show in finder so elected other bright stars on my auto two star alignment. Some areas of the sky did release some nice compact clusters, obvious in the view. Did after alignment check Polaris and shown well now in the eyepiece, but such poor sky conditions refused to show the dim companion fun to see even in a small scope. My Clave failed tho added contrast. Bad night but thanks to the GPS addition life was much easier and for some reason my Celestron behaves better with its use. I strongly suggest you add this one to speed up the alignment process. Likely find things are now a lot easier.

I thought I would never need this. After all, I own a hand-held GPS and my phone has one too, so I know my home coordinates and even wrote them down on the telescope tripod leg. I found that entering the coordinates AND the time/date EVERY time I wanted to align the telescope took too much time, so I would just look around for the objects I wanted to view. I found that I was spending more time trying to find messier objects than it would have taken to enter the coordinates. The solution was to spend the bucks and buy this. It simply works. It does the heavy lifting and lets me spend the time doing what I bought the telescope to do--look at the sky. Yes it is expensive, but a lot less than the smart phone with it's GPS, or even a good hand-held GPS, and the savings in time make it worth it to me.

Ok, I got this because i was tired of entering my location and time EVERY TIME I powered my AVX up. I was used to a Vixen Sky Sensor 2000 which had an internal battery. NeWay, I got this and right away it connected and I was ready to start alignment. Also VERY convenient to be able to plug the hand controller into it and then into the hand controller receptacle on the mount. I'm using up all my available ports already. Having accurate time is handy for planet observing. It's worth it alone to just fire up the mount and start aligning no matter where you setup, handy if you go to different observing sites. I do think this is on the must have accessory list !

I've been a serious penny pincher lately and it tore me apart to spend so much on a GPS, especially when I can obtain coordinates from my phone. But, truth of the matter is, the places I bring my scope to hardly ever have service, and even when I can get the coordinates myself, they always seem a tad bit off. I've never been able to get even a decent alignment with my Celestron NexStar 6 SE. I'm a complete and absolute beginner and no matter what I do, I've just never been able to get it. Until I bought this. The wonderful thing about the SkySync is that it works everywhere, and everywhere is exactly where I bring my scope. I bought it to bring to different dark parks, and across the country when I go. It is a beautiful thing to just be able to turn the scope on, select Daylight Savings, align it with 3 totally random bright stars, and have it work so incredibly flawlessly. I bought this scope so I could see some amazing things, and with the SkySync, I can see everything so easily because it gives my scope such accurate, on point data. It's even a lifesaver when it comes to time input- I can't possibly set it to the exact second like this can. Everything has to be pretty much perfect for me to be able to see deep sky objects, especially because they are often hard to spot as it is. The first night I brought my scope out with SkySync, to a dark park, we got it perfectly aligned on the first try and we were able to see everything. Alignment took about 2 minutes and we were able to select items from the menu on our scope- it was able to perfectly point to every single one. I still can't get over it. It was so easy and we were able to see it all. It's very small, light and durable too. My only complaint, aside from the price, is the location that it's supposed to sit- it fastenes onto the tripod leg. I often have to unfasten it and place it on the base platform of the tube of the scope because, as my scope moves and turns around, the SkySync cord wraps around it! So, yes, it's expensive and a bit overpriced, yes, it really does just input the coordinates and time, yes, you do still have to align it, but it really makes a world of difference. Especially if your a beginner like me, that doesn't want to deal with the hassle, and the guessing, and the frustration. It's worth it and makes the entire experience even more enjoyable. I always use the three star align, the others are a little too difficult for me- like I said, I'm a beginner. I just want to set my scope up and go, and with the SkySync, I can, and I can see the most incredible things.

I bought this GPS unit for my Nexstar 5SE telescope. You MUST set it up right or it will never work. I contacted Celestron for help as there are no directions. YouTube was no help. Celestron tech was great. He helped me with other things on my telescope too. Basics are.. When setting up your telescope, Make sure you select your time zone and daylight savings or standard. You have to give your telescope programmer that info. The GPS downloads UTC time. The time zone you give it will adjust to the correct time. I set up at the eclipse and this got the time and location pretty fast. You still have to align the telescope. The GPS is just time, date, location.

Enable gps in celesteon mount menu, plug it in and as quick as mount initalizes it already has time and location. Works indoors just as fast at my location. Not inexpensive but one less thing to deal with setting up. I have wifi unit plugged into aux port on unit for compact attachment.

The missing link to the automatic telescope alignment procedure. Can be finicky. Should have 3 satellites to get a location fix. A clear sky to view the satellites. And a way to get the information to the software directly. Usually plugs into the mount, as does the WiFi module. Then everything goes to the computer and turns into controls to locate the telescope and the objects desired! I think you can plug directly into the mount from the computer, an Ethernet connection. You still have a network but it’s a local area network, LAN. Then the computer only has to connect to the world network if your software is on the world network. If you have the software then everything is right there on your computer. Storage space is a concern. But you can now get 1-5 TB of RAM on a USB C flash drive! Yet HDR video can be 1GB per 30 sec. Still, that’s a lot of frames to stack up. And Fine tune focus. Very easy to use. Weights nothing. Not sure about battery life or compatibility with other telescopes other than Celestron. Quality is built well. I hope the electronics inside is built to take the outside.

The gps unit provides the celestron hand controller with the time,date, and location information necessary for an accurate alignment. It is very simple to use, simply plug and play. It can take a few minutes for the GPS unit to receive the satellite signals it needs to calculate its location. Once the info is ready, the controller notes it and the alignment process can begin. So what exactly does this gps unit do to make it worth purchasing? It just keeps one from finaglling with the controller trying to enter time,date, and location coordinates. Whether that is worth the purchase price is up to each invidual to decide. I like the gps unit and it plays nice with the starsense autoalign.

Perfekt att slippa knappa in min position

Prodotto come da descrizione. Fix rapido dei satelliti. Perfettamente compatibile con montatura celestron C8 SE Nexstar+.

You really don't need this for the telescope to work but manually entering the data every time you turn it on is so time consuming. By the time you set everything up you want to start observing, not have to then worry about entering data that you can make a mistake on. With this there is none of that worry. Definitely worth it in my opinion if you can afford it.

この機能が追加されると、望遠鏡のセッティングが早くて良いですね♪ スターセンスとセットで使用すると、アライメントがフルオートに＼(^_^)／ 便利です❗

Perfect product & delivery 👌🏻 it gave me quick coordinates just in little seconds