SynScan
App to control motorized telescope mounts from Sky-Watcher
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App description
Android App Analysis and Review: SynScan, Developed by Skywatcher Apps Team. Listed in Tools Category. Current Version Is 2.5.15, Updated On 28/01/2025 . According to users reviews on Google Play: SynScan. Achieved Over 46 thousand Installs. SynScan Currently Has 333 Reviews, Average Rating 1.6 Stars
Use the SynScan app to control Sky-Watcher telescope mounts via Wi-Fi, USB or Bluetooth LE. Mounts without built-in Wi-Fi can be supported via a SynScan Wi-Fi adapter.This version of the SynScan app is suited for novice users using alt-azimuth mounts.
Features
- Control telescope mount to slew, align, GOTO and track.
- Point And Track: track celestial objects (including the Sun and planets) without aligning.
- Support gamepad navigation.
- Browse a catalog of stars, comets, and deep sky objects. Or, save your own objects.
- Provide access to mount for use by third-party apps, including ASCOM clients, SkySafari, Luminos, Stellarium Mobile Plus, Stellarium Desktop or customer-developed apps.
- Support access to the mount and the SynScan app from any platform that supports TCP/UDP connections.
- Provide emulator mount for testing and practicing.
- Track fast-moving earth satellites by working with the PreviSat app on Windows PC or the Lumios app on iOS devices.
- SynMatrix AutoAlign: use the smartphone camera to align the telescope automatically.
We are currently offering version 2.5.15. This is our latest, most optimized version. It is suitable for many different devices. Free download directly apk from the Google Play Store or other versions we're hosting. Moreover, you can download without registration and no login required.
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What's New
• PM Sharing: changed broadcast interval from every 60 sec to every 3 sec. Make more robust.
• Connect popup: fix problem with multiple popup (connect, choose mode, restore from park) not showing in right order
• AZ tracking: not use trail points to track when aux encoder is enabled
• AutoAlign: ensure screen awake
• AutoAlign: allow page to open when mount not connected
• more on https://www.skywatcher.com/download/software/synscan-app/about/
• Connect popup: fix problem with multiple popup (connect, choose mode, restore from park) not showing in right order
• AZ tracking: not use trail points to track when aux encoder is enabled
• AutoAlign: ensure screen awake
• AutoAlign: allow page to open when mount not connected
• more on https://www.skywatcher.com/download/software/synscan-app/about/
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Recent Comments
Owen Gwynne
Reduced to one star as the latest version (November 2023) seems to be broken. The night view turns off while the mount is slewing to GOTO, so we get a blast of white screen. Also, I can't enter catalog numbers to specify Deep Sky Objects, the pop-up number keypad doesn't work. Don't know what else doesn't work, as it's not worth trying.
A Google user
Very nice app that quickly and accurately gets your scope aligned and finding objects. It's a much quicker and easier setup than the traditional handheld Synscan on my older dobsonian. My only complaint is that it doesn't darken or retract the white bar at the bottom of my Android when in night mode; if i try to work around this by manually retracting it, it keeps popping back up whenever I use the down arrows for adjusting.
Paul Jervis
Can work well, but the biggest bug for me is that it won't remember the setting for Dual Encoding. I keep switching it on, I save it, but after each session (or even a minor loss of WiFi) it loses the setting. Also, why is the default "off" in the first place? SW (rightly) raves about how great this feature is, but then you default it to OFF?
Neill Mitchell
Compared to the Celestron offering, this really is crude. Plus there are some really annoying bugs that make it difficult to use for a new user. For example, the alignment process has no button to confirm completion of the last step, so you don't know if it's successful or not. The only way out is to keep pressing the back button, which is confusing. Plus, why are planets not in their own category? They're listed under stars! This really needs a lot of work to catch up with the Celestron app!
sart k
2nd review. Issue 1. Couldn't use the location sensor. Solved this issue. You have to go into your location advanced settings and allow the app to use location settings. So solved this issue. Was using fine and now can't connect to the WiFi that the device produces even though my pixel 3a was working a treat numberous times before this issue. This app is a poor. If I would have known. I would have avoided it and gone with a Celestron. Annoyed isn't the word.
Richard Rubie-Todd
Very poor user interface. Searching for objects doesn't work. There is a brief flash when it filters then resets. Tonight's best in utilities....?? You can't save objects into a to look at just or favourites? History? A lot of potential but a pretty poor app.
Joshua Hayes
I had this on my previous phone, a Galaxy S9 and it worked great. I've just got the app on my Galaxy S21 and it won't open, I get the Syncsan logo flash on the screen for a split second then it closes. According to my phone the apps still open but when I try from recent apps it still closes. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and turning phone off and on but nothing works. If this is fixed im happy to give 5 stars.
Balázs H. (Gollam)
Many things could be improved. It always takes 1-2 hours for me to align the mount. Last night I chose 3 star alignment. It went well, I chose the stars, the mount slewed to them almost correctly, then after the last confirmation, the app told me: alignment unsuccessful. Why??? Then at one time, it started to move the scope in the wrong direction, pushing it to the base of the mount, I needed to shut it off. And it also constantly wraps the battery cord around the mount, why cannot it go in the other direction, instead of making multiple circles in the same direction? I have to move the battery on the ground all the time.