SKYWATCHER STAR ADVENTURER GTI WIFI

Working better than expected and great service from testar

Couldn’t be more happy with the Star Adventurer GTI Wifi goto tracker mount, tripod and the results speak for themselves. Easy initial setup, deployment and ease of use. Ordered online and received very quickly.

Excelent Service

I would like to thank the guys at Testar for there excellent service and communication after I tried to buy from other company's that sold me the item and then told me I would have to wait until mid 2023 before they could send me the GTI ... ?? I ordered from Testar and the GTI arrived a few days later, although I have not set up my scope on the GTI yet as I'm still waiting for other bits to arrive, but I did mount my Coranado solar scope to the GTI and did a very rough alignment, and it works perfectly. Thank you all at Testar ... :)

Excellent for visual, reasonable for AP

My copy of this mount seems pretty good. It's very smooth and handles up to my ED80 & 127 Mak pretty well for visual use - though they're the most you'd want to put on it. Drives well from either the Asi Air Plus or via the iPad using either the Synscan pro app or Sky Safari plus. Super light weight and easy to carry around. My main photography setup for this is the WO Z61 and Asi 294mc guided with FMA180 and 120mm via the AA+ which is probably getting towards the mount's limits for weight. Guiding so far has been averaging around 1" though there does seem to be times where the mount stops responding to Dec pulses and wanders out to 3" away then comes good - not sure what's happening there but 70% or thereabouts of my 5 minute subs seem to work out nicely. The dragons of Ara was 10 x 5 minute shots. I think Skywatcher have missed an opportunity by not quite allowing it to be used as an Alt Az mount as well - it gets pretty close - see pic, but not quite! Some aspects of the fit and finish like the polar scope cover and battery compartment fitting is very ordinary - if Skywatcher could address these and allow the scope to be used in Alt Az mode as well, they'd have a real winner. The dual attachment points for the counter weight shaft was a good idea to prevent the counterweights from hitting the tripod. At this point, I've probably used mine half a dozen times and so far, I think it's been good value for the money. Looking forward to getting it to some real dark sky sights over summer and will hopefully add a few more pics/info here.