Sunday, September 1, 2013

Celestron 93959 SkyQ Link Wi-Fi Adapter (Black)

Celestron 93959  SkyQ Link Wi-Fi Adapter (Black)
List Price : $99.95
Price : $99.95
Code : B006YTQBEU
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Product Feature


  • Complete wireless control of your Celestron telescope
  • Telescope alignment - align your telescope wirelessly using Your iPhone or iPad
  • Planetarium interface - Tap on any object displayed on the SkyQ Sky view screen and instantly slew your telescope to that object
  • Sky Tour - Generates a list of all the best stars, galaxies and nebulas to view through your telescope
  • Does not require any batteries

Product Description


Celestron's innovative new SkyQ Link Wi-Fi Module takes the technology behind our SkyQ app even further by activating a wireless control feature for most computerized Celestron telescopes. More than merely enabling completely wireless operation (including telescope alignment) , the SkyQ Link Module will allow you to automatically slew the scope to an object with a simple tap on your iPhone/iPad planetarium interface. And a Sky Tour feature will even generate a list of the best stars, galaxies, and nebulas to see based on the user's time and location.


Product Detail


  • Color: Black
  • Brand: Celestron
  • Model: 93959
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 1.30" h x2.00" w x2.50" l,.50 pounds








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Product Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
3Neat
By Carl
I just got it an tried the SKYQ out with my Celestron CGEM DX mount.

The SkyQ link snaps into the auxilery port and lights up. My iPad was able to establish a connection to the SkyQ very easily, and the lights flash differently when connected. For me, the range was pretty far, well over the advertised 20 feet.

The software works and does't crash, but compared to sky Safari and programs like that, the app is a bit lame. It's hard to click on star, you have to click and hold, then click on a popup tab.

I was pretty excited to try the skyQ for several reasons:

1. The provided cable for my scope is way too short
2. The cable pulls on the mount as I move around the scope
3. A menu driven system takes a LONG time to get anything done. I'd much rather click on a map. I thought the skyQ would speed up my scope alignment and setup for astrophotography, which really takes me a long time each night!
4. The buttons on the regular hand controller are hard to read and are too close to one another, often I press the wrong one in the dark.
5. There is an advanced page on the skyQ app that allows you to set many advanced features of your scope which would be more tedious with a hand controller menu system.

But, after fooling around with it a bit, I'd say that this is a toy and not something that's ready for use with astrophotography. As far as I can tell there's no way to add calibration stars to the 3 alignment stars, so the goto won't be very accurate. Additionally, it's missing a very important feature for astrophotography: No ALLSTAR polar alignment. I just tried using the hand controller and the SkyQ together, to see if I can just use the hand controller for calibration stars and ALLSTAR, but the two devices are completely unaware of what the other is doing. If you do a full calibration with the hand controller then fire up the skyQ, the SkyQ app won't let you proceed without starting over with a 3-Star align.

But, if you're just ding visual stuff, and GOTO accuracy is not a big deal, and polar alignment isn't so important, it can be very neat.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
3Nifty Gizmo
By T. S. Thompson
I was a little reluctant to order this device, after seeing the lukewarm reviews. I did note, however, that most reviews seemed to note shortcomings in the iPhone/iPad software App. I wanted the device as a means of connecting to my backyard telescope from my living room computer, and the App was a relatively insignificant consideration.

First the good news: The SkyQ works great for exactly what I need.

The bad news: The range on the SkyQ was insufficient to connect to the access-point located about 60 feet away. It could "see" the wireless signal, but it would not connect. So I ended up getting a very compact wireless extender to plug into AC power directly adjacent to the telescope. Once I did this, everything worked splendidly. I can now use NexRemote on an Ethernet-wired PC to talk to the wirelessly connected telescope.

Also, the security protocol supported by the device is WPA, not WPA2. That meant I had to change my wireless network to be a little less secure. In principle, I could get around this by using WPA only on the local wireless extender and its SSID network segment, and keeping WPA2 on my other wireless SSID.

In conclusion, I am happy that this device does what I wanted; though there were some intermediate frustrations to getting there.

**update** 7/2013
The WIFI connection to the wireless access point installed directly under the telescope occasionally fails. This is quite frustrating. The lack of ability to do an ad-hoc network with the PC client of SkyQlink is crippling. My laptop should be able to connect directly to the SkyQ (much as an iDevice does) without having to go through an intermediate access point. Overall, the SkyQ is useful, and enables moderately effective remote control; but it could be better.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
2Great Product with sub-par software
By dj5kjlara
I love the idea of this product, but it just didn't deliver on it's promise. The main problem is with the software, specifically the iPhone app. So keep in mind that my experience was with the iPhone; I don't know if the experience is any different on the iPad. First of all, if you are a beginner, you cannot align the telescope using one of the best features of the hand controller, and that is the Sky Align feature. In order to align the scope, you need to use three stars which you know, which for a beginner can be difficult. This almost wouldn't be a problem, because the app uses gyroscope, compass, and GPS technology to allow you to point the phone in the sky and it will show you what stars you are looking at. However, this function doesn't really work well. It is always a few degrees off for me, so I can't really tell if I'm aligning on the right star or not. Also, I have noticed that you can't align to planets. Sometimes it's much easier for me to find a planet than a particular star, so it should allow me to align to those planets. Lastly, after the most recent update, it seems like the app doesn't recognize my touches when trying to align the scope 90% of the time. This makes it very frustrating to align. After about 20 minutes of getting nowhere I just unplugged it and plugged in my trusty hand controller, and I was up and running in under 5 minutes. I realize that some of my issues with the software will be alleviated once I am more familiar with the night sky, but others seem like they should be fixed already. Hopefully Celestron has somebody working on these features, or will at least take into consideration my opinions on the app.

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