Celestron - SkyPortal WiFi Module - Control Your Computerized Telescope via Smartphone - Telescope Wi-Fi Accessory

4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars | 2,140 ratings

Price: 119.95

Last update: 11-19-2024


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Align and control your telescope wirelessly using your smartphone or tablet and Electron's free Sky Portal app for iOS and Android devices.
Tap any celestial object you see in the sky to identify it instantly. Tap again and your telescope slews to that object, centering it perfectly in the eyepiece.
Explore 100,000+ objects in Sky Portal's database. While you observe, view astro images and listen to audio descriptions for hundreds of the most popular objects including the planets, Orion Nebula, Hercules Open Star Cluster, and more.
Sky Tour feature generates a list of all the best stars, galaxies and nebulae to view based on your exact time and location.

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Scott H.
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! This works amazingly well! (SkyQ with 2 year old IPad, the free SkyPortal App and a Celestron CPC1100 11" telescope)
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2015
Oh my goodness! This device with the free SkyPortal app from Celestron (by Sky Safari) makes nighttime astronomy with my CPC 1100 telescope an incredible amount of fun. The old hand controller doesn't begin to compare to how easy this is to use, continue to learn and navigate about the sky. Quickly learning about star names, features, constellations and finding all those allusive deep nebula and clusters. Detailed information about anything in the sky is just a couple touches away, including full narration about what your looking at. Neptune and Uranus were awesome to see and the alignment procedure of my telescope is now so easy. Not sure what your looking at? Just point the telescope and the SkyPortal app (through the skyQ) Shows you the star name, particular information and the constellation you looking at all right on the screen. The app also had night time viewing (dim red) to keep your night vision in tact. The guys at Celestron definitely hit a home run with this one! This works with any of the Celestron go-to telescopes. I had some issues at first. It seems I was experiencing a conflict between the original hand controller and the SkyQ/SkyPortal App). I did not see in the instructions were told me to not have my hand controller plugged in but they must conflict somehow. Once I unplugged the hand controller and restarted everything, the telescope quickly becomes aligned everything worked perfectly.

Update 10 June 2016. I upgraded my telescope to an 11" Edge HD telescope on a CGEM DX mount and have lots more use to report on. In warmer weather I still regularly use and prefer the WIFI Skyportal. When it's really cold I use the hand controller as I can wear gloves when operating. I did also upgrade to SkySafari Pro 5 and really like the extra features including comets, asteroids and identifying various satellites including alerts when the ISS International Space Station as well as Iridium flares will occur overhead. Just a note for no matter what kind of mount you have- be sure to balance your scope to maintain dead on goto accuracy.

Update-22Nov 16. I am now using an Ipad Pro with Sky Safari 5 and it continues to work great and totally love it! EVERYONE- DONT FORGET TO UNPLUG YOUR HAND CONTROLLER when using Skyportal as the two do not work well together! I did add a photo of the compatibility list below:
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Scott H.
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! This works amazingly well! (SkyQ with 2 year old IPad, the free SkyPortal App and a Celestron CPC1100 11" telescope)
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2015
Oh my goodness! This device with the free SkyPortal app from Celestron (by Sky Safari) makes nighttime astronomy with my CPC 1100 telescope an incredible amount of fun. The old hand controller doesn't begin to compare to how easy this is to use, continue to learn and navigate about the sky. Quickly learning about star names, features, constellations and finding all those allusive deep nebula and clusters. Detailed information about anything in the sky is just a couple touches away, including full narration about what your looking at. Neptune and Uranus were awesome to see and the alignment procedure of my telescope is now so easy. Not sure what your looking at? Just point the telescope and the SkyPortal app (through the skyQ) Shows you the star name, particular information and the constellation you looking at all right on the screen. The app also had night time viewing (dim red) to keep your night vision in tact. The guys at Celestron definitely hit a home run with this one! This works with any of the Celestron go-to telescopes. I had some issues at first. It seems I was experiencing a conflict between the original hand controller and the SkyQ/SkyPortal App). I did not see in the instructions were told me to not have my hand controller plugged in but they must conflict somehow. Once I unplugged the hand controller and restarted everything, the telescope quickly becomes aligned everything worked perfectly.

Update 10 June 2016. I upgraded my telescope to an 11" Edge HD telescope on a CGEM DX mount and have lots more use to report on. In warmer weather I still regularly use and prefer the WIFI Skyportal. When it's really cold I use the hand controller as I can wear gloves when operating. I did also upgrade to SkySafari Pro 5 and really like the extra features including comets, asteroids and identifying various satellites including alerts when the ISS International Space Station as well as Iridium flares will occur overhead. Just a note for no matter what kind of mount you have- be sure to balance your scope to maintain dead on goto accuracy.

Update-22Nov 16. I am now using an Ipad Pro with Sky Safari 5 and it continues to work great and totally love it! EVERYONE- DONT FORGET TO UNPLUG YOUR HAND CONTROLLER when using Skyportal as the two do not work well together! I did add a photo of the compatibility list below:
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Gregory Schiller
5.0 out of 5 stars It works well
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2024
This turns your Celestron Go-To telescope into a WiFi hotspot. Connect via phone, tablet or PC Laptop or Desktop with wireless networking capability. Contol the scope with Celestron software downloadable from their website. It works perfectly. I use my tablet.
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Gregory Schiller
5.0 out of 5 stars It works well
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2024
This turns your Celestron Go-To telescope into a WiFi hotspot. Connect via phone, tablet or PC Laptop or Desktop with wireless networking capability. Contol the scope with Celestron software downloadable from their website. It works perfectly. I use my tablet.
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J. Price
4.0 out of 5 stars This is what the original Evolution on-board wifi should be
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2019
I purchased an 8” Evolution scope in 2018 with 2nd gen on-board wifi. Could never get it to work with my home wifi and in the direct access mode the scope was very slow to respond to commands from SkySafari on iOS, and would disconnect periodically. Reading up on this the 1st gen wifi was crappy, but the new one was supposed to be quite good. I figured it was my wifi or my phone or just bad Celestron quality control, but couldn’t be bothered to ship the whole thing back to Celestron to check it out. After more research I decided to try this dongle, just to confirm what was up. Turns out the external module works a treat - instant and stable access to home wifi and in direct connect mode too. Quick response to controls. Faultless. Worth every penny in making my scope what it should have been out of the box. If your Evolution mount wifi is not up to expectations, try this. One star off for Celestron headaches.
Carol the Dabbler
5.0 out of 5 stars A definite upgrade for my Celestron NexStar-4SE telescope
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2024
After finding out about this product in an Astronomy magazine ad, I decided to give it a try for my Celestron NexStar-4SE telescope (which I power with a Celestron external AC-to-DC power supply). I watched a couple of YouTube videos about this WiFi module and the SkyPortal App that works with it and was pleased with how I could control the NexStar-4SE telescope via the SkyPortal WiFi module that plugged into my telescope's Aux port and the App that I downloaded to my Android smartphone. At first I had difficulties getting the telescope aligned, but after I upgraded the red dot finderscope that came with my NexStar telescope to Celestron's StarPointer Pro finderscope, I found it easier to center bright stars in the telescope and achieve alignment. Note that the SkyPortal alignment process is different from the NexStar telescope's normal alignment process because SkyPortal requires aligning with three bright stars, not three bright objects (although using a bright object like the moon to manually align the finderscope with the view in the telescope eyepiece before doing the star alignment process helps, which one can do in Connect mode before running Connect and Align). After getting the NexStar telescope successfully aligned, the SkyPortal App that controls the telescope has some great features in the Search menu that enabled me to select celestial objects for the telescope to Go To from submenus including Tonight's Best, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and deep sky objects. These add-ons provided an enhanced celestial object observing experience (after your session, don't forget to turn off the finderscope red light switch so that you don't run out the battery).
James Rossiter
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to install and use
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2024
Very pleased with this unit. I bought it because I found the Celestron hand controller to be awkward, and...at times, unresponsive. Once I plugged the WiFi unit it and connected it to my phone, I was very impressed. It was extremely easy to connect to, and makes alignment quick and easy. I really can't say enough good about it, I love this product.
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James Rossiter
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to install and use
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2024
Very pleased with this unit. I bought it because I found the Celestron hand controller to be awkward, and...at times, unresponsive. Once I plugged the WiFi unit it and connected it to my phone, I was very impressed. It was extremely easy to connect to, and makes alignment quick and easy. I really can't say enough good about it, I love this product.
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