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If you’re new to the world of star trackers for astrophotography, this article should help clear things up. Affordable, portable camera tracker mounts are a fantastic way to start, because they are not overly complex, and can provide promising results in a short period of time. In the beginner stages of astrophotography, one of the most daunting challenges is choosing a reliable tracking mount for long exposure photography at night.

If you would like to get a good look at the Star Adventurer Pro Pack in action, please enjoy my video review on YouTube:

The setup I used was the Pro Pack version, that comes with the counterweight kit, latitude EQ base, and fine-tuning mounting assembly. In this post, I’ll share my unbiased opinion about the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer Pro, and actual images I was able to capture using it. After using iOptron star trackers for deep-sky astrophotography exclusively, it was time to see what all the fuss was about. You’ll have a harder time finding the laser spot on a bigger and deeper area.The Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer Pro is an extremely popular portable star tracker designed for astrophotography.

If you have two shots and one of them is a close up of a person and the other one is a long distance shot of a landscape or cityscape you will have much more success shooting the landscape shot first and using the laser to later reframe upon your closer subject.

What you need to be is consistent between framing and repositioning your shot. This also means that when you attach the pointer to the camera that you don’t have to be perfectly aligned. This isn’t a huge deal because when you set your shot up you can frame your shot normally and then press the laser button to see where it has to be to accomplish that framing again. In my testing this resulted in my reference laser point being slightly offset from the center of my frame. In theory they are shooting parallel to each other. The laser pointer is shooting from several inches higher.

Your SLR is shooting out of the center of your lens.

In my example I centered the laser on the brace which means it will be slightly offset from lens-center. This means that unless you offset your laser to be in line with the holes then your reference dot will not be perfectly centered either. That is to say that they are not centered.

In my example the brace has staggered holes in it.

A few miscellaneous things to keep in mind.