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Originally Posted by skysurfer
Nice device, but does the app have the ability to review the pictures taken with the camera on the much larger Android screen ?
That would be a great help on focusing. I do that with DSLR Controller over USB (CR2 files over wifi is way too slow), while using the 26 years old Super Polaris as tracking device which tracks neatly up till 600mm and 4 minutes with the Canon 6D without guiding.
The Star Adventurer Mini cannot handle my ED110, but it can carry my 6d+70-300L and even the new 100-400LII (which I don't have). Both lenses are very sharp in the edges at full aperture, like the 200/2.8L.
The polar scope should just find BQ Octantis (+6.9) (not Sigma which is too far off the Pole!) which can be put into the center of the field and that is accurate enough.
I did that sucessfully with my Vixen SP and had no tracking errors at 600mm and 4 minutes.
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The Mini wi-fi connection is just to the mount, which has no awareness or connection to whatever camera you have sitting on it. I'm not aware of any mounts that connect through to the camera as well?
If you need wi-fi to connect to camera then you'll have to do one at a time. i.e. connect to camera for focus etc, then connect to mount to initiate timelapse.
I wouldn't be trying to use something this small and lightweight to image at anything above 200mm. You might be able to manage something in a desperate situation but big lenses at 300-400mm really need a more typical equatorial mount.
Phil