Celestron StarSense AutoAlign for Skywatcher mounts

Celestron StarSense - fully automated calibration of your Skywatcher GoTo mount

StarSense technology was innovated by Celestron?s engineers, allowing a Celestron computerized telescope to automatically align itself with the night sky. Alignment has never been easier, the inconvenient locating of reference stars can be omitted! This technology was introduced with the SkyProdigy mounts first and has received much attention from owners of other telescopes; a short time later it could be retrofitted for all modern Celestron mounts with NexStar control by adding the StarSense module.

In order to make this luxury available to owners of mounts with more simple controls, Celestron has made StarSense and the integrated plate solver technology even more versatile. With the new interface box, you can replace the SynScan control from Sky-Watcher telescopes by the Celestron StarSense control and get the easy operation of Celestron without buying a new mount.

With this interface box, StarSense can be used also with Sky-Watcher telescopes, further expanding the number of scopes that can take advantage of this technology!

How it works: StarSense camera and hand control both plug into the Interface Box and the Interface Box plugs into the mount?s hand control port. In minutes your SkyWatcher mount is aligned and you are off to the stars.

This Celestron StarSense module is compatible with:

Skywatcher HEQ5 SynScan / SkyScan

Skywatcher EQ5 SynScan (V4 and up)

Skywatcher EQ6 SynScan / SkyScan and SynTrek

Skywatcher AZ-EQ5 und AZ-EQ6

Skywatcher EQ8

Altazimuth GoTo mounts from Skywatcher, if compatible to AZ SynScan

Orion SkyView Pro #24709

Orion Atlas EQ-G #24338

Orion Atlas Pro AZ/EQ-G #10010

Orion HDX110 #10044

Question:
Can SkyPortal and StarSense be used together, i.e. can the combination of SkyPortal & App &iPad be used also as an input device to perform alignment with the StarSense camera to a NexStar SE6 without a hand controller?

Answer from Teleskop-Service:
Yes, it works, and really well, but maybe the firmware of the telescope and StarSense has to be updated.

Under the following link you can find a video how to run the setup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqqoFZyxzQg


Question:
Is it possible to use the Starsense version for Skywatcher for Celestron mounts by not using the interface box required for Skywatcher on the Celestron mount, or are there software differences in the controllers of both Starsense versions that make flexible use impossible?

Answer from Teleskop-Service:
The two StarSense AutoAlign modules do not differ, apart from the additional interface box for the Skywatcher mounts. Flexible use between a Celestron mount and a Skywatcher mount should therefore be possible without any problems.