iOptron SkyHunter - for BOTH Visual Astronomy and Imaging? 

I don't know if you've found out yet, to switch from eq to AZ, turn the mount off. Hold the center circle button and flip the switch to on while still holding the button. Release when the lights flash and if no lights are on it's in az mode. Do the same to switch to EQ but 1 light will be on and set it to 1x for sidereal tracking. It's in the manual

It's always a pleasure to see Mrs. Stargaze involved, seeing her succeed gives me more confidence.

Really appreciatable work.....always helpfull video.....thanks.....

Awesome video images are amazing thank you

Thank you for the sky safari tutorial; I spent way too long trying to make that work and in 30 seconds you made it so easy !

Yup. I said it before: You are answering every question I have in my mind so far. It’s getting to be scary.

Good info, I when with the new skywatcher GTI , I think they are very close to each other, the asi air pro did work with the GTI for me only pro I could see.

Great video. I have been looking into a EQ mount that us portable. I have the Ipolar Ioptron SkyGuider pro and I find the way polar to be a pain at times. When is does work and polar aline is works great I can do 1 minute to 90 second at 300 to 400 mm on my Sigma 150 - 600. I'm thinking have a EQ mount would make things faster and easy to get a good night of deep Sky Astro This new system look interesting. Great to see another follow Canadian on RU-vid.

Thanks for this! I'm going to have my first guiding evening with the Skyhunter and Asiair Plus as soon as the weather clears up. This is my first astrophotography setup, and as I don't drive, I needed something where I could fit everything into a hiking backpack so I can jump on the bus to a darker part of my city! I'll be using both a Skywatcher 72ed 420mm scope, which I know will be pushing the limits, as well as an Askar FMA180 which should be much more forgiving. Not too worried about the FMA180, but hopefully the guiding will be good enough to give me some good images of things like the Orion Nebula with the 72ed! Maybe one day I'll have a car and an HEQ5 to bring things to the next level, but for now I'm going to need to make the best of this mount.

Wow Incredible. OH and you should probably next review the HSL Reflector 114mm 76700 Amazon telescope

Nice video! congratulations for the photos taken with the skyhunter! From the video I can't understand how you managed to balance the mount, did you have to unscrew the RA knob? I'm asking because in my mount I can't unscrew and balance the RA axis in any way

Hi, I came across your channel recently, amazing content. I’m just wondering do have any recommendations for absolute beginners wanting to jump straight into deep space? I’d need something possibly with an app to help too 😅 (sorry I’m not asking for much) 🥴

necesito una de esas, saludos desde chile

Hi there. Great video. I also have the omni 102az from costco. I'm wondering if the tripod that came with the 102az would be good to use with Skyhunter. Thanks for all of the great videos you post.😊

Hi, John - I'm wondering how you got a good polar alignment with that peephole sight. You centered Polaris. What did you do to then offset Polaris the 2/3rds of a degree and in the proper direction - without a polar scope? Or did you just let your guidescope make the necessary adjustments? As for getting into AZ mode, I'm guessing that you'll have to pick a different mount than the 120/28 you picked - both of which are EQ mounts. There's probably an iOptron AZ mount in that list that will let you use AZ mode.

Is guidance required to make the images you show? I want to take a kit to the Smoky Mountains and keep the process simple. Please advise the needed pieces for that application - thanks PS: Great video!

Good evening, first of all, thank you very much for the videos, they are very useful. I want to buy the Skyhunter mount since I have a 72ed telescope and the Canon DSRL. The question is if for astrophotography I can use the goto with the ioptron commander to reach the objects (I also have skysafary plus on my mobile phone) I ask this until I can buy the asiair mini plus a dedicated camera. Thank you very much and greetings from Argentina, Carlos

Excellent video. 6:25 - the blue halo around Jupiter appears because of the achromat design and it’s short focal length or because of the iPhone which took the picture? Does that blue halo also appear when observing though the eyepiece (without the iPhone) ?

Nice review. I received my SkyHunter a couple of days ago and it's been a challenge. Did you figure out how to change modes? Page 4 in the quick guide kind of hints on it, but doesn't really explain how to switch. My Commander lite app on my Android phone has different screens. Are you running Apple OS?

Nice review and pictures! Can you get that mount polar aligned without a line of sight to Polaris? I have a nice piece of sky from my balcony, but Polaris sadly is not visible..

And your last video was uploaded 2 weeks ago... Looking forward for more amazing videos

May I please ask what method/software you have used for polar alignment? I have the mount version without the iPolar and hate the software options. I am used to a polar scope method and in error assumed there was an option to go that route. Apparently skyhunter does not offer a polar scope option which is a little frustrating. May I also please ask if your version of the skuhunter mount had the replaced/corrected control board? Those I believe were being shipped to earlier mount version adopters from about before Sept 2022. I wan curios if the tracking results you had were with the old board or the new one which is supposed to correct a lot of the erratic tracking early users had experienced according to the feedback on cloudynights. Thanks.

I know this is a longshot. I purchased this mount for my son and we are having no lock at all getting it setup. We are in Ottawa. We sight Polaris as you describe in your video and Ski Safari 7 Pro is then nowhere near Either Vega or Jupiter or whatever else you send it to.

I really wanted to like this mount. It was supposed to be an upgrade to my AZ GTi. The guiding is not good (the AZ GTi guides way better!) I was hoping that I just had a defective unit, and that it could be fixed, but it appears that this is a common complaint with the Skyhunter. I doubt I will be purchasing an iOptron product again.

Since I want to do astrophotography with a system camera, would you recommend the SkyHunter or the SkyGuider Pro? I find the SkyHunter interesting because you can target the objects directly in SkySafari. And which version of SkySafari do you use?

Trying to decide between this and the skywatcher adventure GTi.

can you please do a detailed comparison of SkyHunter vs Skyguider pro ?

If we ignore the blue halo typical for short achromats, how does the Celestron Omni 102 compare in image quality and resolution to the 61 mm ED or a bigger 70 - 80 mm FPL-51 ED ? Unfortunately there are very few videos on RU-vid directly comparing achromats to APOs. Thank you!

Need advice on choosing a telescope tripod and mount. My wife recently gifted me an explore scientific ED 80 telescope. I am new to telescope astronomy and astrophotography. ED 80 is pretty intermediate telescope ( not the best for beginner and it didn't even with an eye piece) I have had a good experience with DSLR photography including capturing night time lapse. But with astronomy I want to first learn visual astronomy and slowly and gradually transition to astro photography.

Hi, Can you please recommend between Az-gti and Skywatcher 2i star tracker. Both have same prices here in India and have led to a lot of confusion about which one to buy.

Hello! I Have the same setup..... What values ​​do you use in the guide menu in Asiair? Let me explain.... How did you set calibration step, max RA and Dec duration? Thank you! Clear skies!

I had a SKYHUnter and I could not get it to guide at all with ASIAIR plus. It would just give up and not guide at all. I get better use with the AZ-GTI which I still use. I have a Pro and a Plus. Wish I saw your review beforehand. It must be weak at guiding.

Hello!!! which SkySafari pro is 7 or 6, regards from Chile

How good is it to buy in 2023. Or will there be any new updated or advance one's coming this year by ioptron or any other company

The iPolar version comes with "optical scope" for star align?

Have you gotten a chance to view the new comet (c/2022 e3 ztf)

Can it handle a redcat71, DSLR, guidescope and asiair plus?

Hey John, what is a sky hunter telescope?

I was going to pull the trigger on this one, but I heard so many problems that now I am not so sure =( its sad as seems perfect for a travel setup as I do travel a lot overseas.

Where is the app ? Can't find it for Android phone.

i would like to do astro photography but i don't really want another hobby where i have to do tech support! haha.

I'm torn between this and the star adventurer gti.. any advice

Is it still valid to buy this mount in 2023. Or should wait for some new releases

hello ! Can you tell us the guiding error please ?

Can i Use 750/150 mm OTA on This Mount

How it's cost if we count all telescope, camera, mount...

AZ GTI Master race

which telescope is that?

What model it’s is mount name ?

Hi do you remember when you went to George p vanier junior high

Whats the price

altho I live in central europe . and not anywhere near the us . . . . I still enjoy it even tough a lot of this is irrelevant for me . . it's allways been like that because america just makes way more astronomy videos than europe . . . so a lot of the quides and sutch just end up being american

8:31 “two months later”. Yes this has been my experience with so many ioptron mounts.. I will just pass :/

Oh, and one more thing, what telescope did your wife buy in 2012?

hello, 5 kg load what is the maximum shutter speed the mount can handle?