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Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer 2i Pro Pack review
Sky-Watcher's Star Adventurer 2i Pro Pack: a motorized portable tracking platform with Wi-Fi control from the free SAM Console app and a deluxe equatorial base, for Milky Way, eclipse, time-lapse and small-telescope use on a photo tripod.
The Star Adventurer 2i is Sky-Watcher’s portable motorized tracking platform. It turns a photo tripod into an equatorial mount, so a camera can follow the stars through long exposures of the Milky Way, eclipses and deep-sky fields.
Wi-Fi
The 2i adds Wi-Fi: Sky-Watcher’s free SAM Console app controls it from a phone.
The Pro Pack
The Pro Pack includes a deluxe equatorial base that sets the polar angle precisely. The Amazon.com bullets do not itemize the rest of the pack.
Modular
Sky-Watcher stresses wide-field astrophotography, time-lapse video and telescopic use, on the photographer’s own tripod.
What is not published
The payload, the tracking rates and the power source. For a tracker, payload is the key figure; trackers on this shelf that publish one include the OGST and the OrionU.
Price and availability
On November 7, 2026, Amazon.com sold it directly at $469.00.
Figures as Keepa reported them on the day this page was last updated. Stock and pricing shift without warning.
Prices quoted in this text were read on November 7, 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
Its two nearest scopes on price
Same aisle, closest price — what the same spend else shows.
Wi-Fi control with Sky-Watcher's free SAM Console app
Deluxe equatorial base for polar alignment
Fits an existing photo tripod; sold directly by Amazon
Compromises
Payload not published on the US listing
Contents of the Pro Pack not itemized in the bullets
Tracking rates not listed
Specifications
Payload
Not published in the Amazon.com listing.
Counterweight
Not published in the listing bullets.
Tracking rates
Not listed in the bullets · wide-field, time-lapse and telescopic use stated
Polar alignment method
Deluxe equatorial base for setting the polar angle
Power source
Not published in the listing bullets.
Weight
Not published in the listing text · Amazon's item data gives 3.2 kg (7 lb) for the shipment
Head fitting
Integrates with existing photographic tripods, stated
Amazon reference
B07NY44782
EAN
0050234205122
What observers ask about this one
What can it photograph?
Sky-Watcher names the Milky Way, eclipses and other astronomical objects, as wide-field images, time-lapse video or through a small telescope.
Do I need a special tripod?
No. Sky-Watcher says its modular design integrates with existing photographic tripods.
How is it controlled?
Over Wi-Fi from a smartphone, using the free SAM Console app.
Our score
7.2/ 10
A well-established photographic tracker whose US listing forgets to publish what it will carry.
The price on Amazon.com
This model is listed on Amazon.com, at ≈ $469 at the last reading. Listed is not the same as in stock: availability changes daily, and the buy box shows the live price.
Details checked on November 7, 2026.
This one and its buyer, among astronomy instruments
Camera-based night sky photography on an existing photo tripod
Eyepieces and parts stated to fit
Listed because the eyepiece or part names this scope.
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for telescopes and observing optics and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
4 kg (8.8 lb) axial, 2 kg (4.4 lb) lateral without counterweights · 500 g (17.6 oz) · ESP32 on 5 V · star pointer to −10 °C (14 °F)
OrionU's dual-screw steel-shaft star tracker: a 500 g carbon-fiber PETG body carrying 4 kg axially and 2 kg laterally without counterweights, with a high-brightness polar pointer, ESP32 control on 5 V power and a 3/8-inch tripod fitting.
Best for: A camera and short lens carried a long way, where every gram and every counterweight counts
±10 arcsec periodic error over 10 min · 1:101.25 gear train · 1.4 kg carrying 4 kg (8.8 lb) · Wi-Fi, open source · three polar alignment methods
OGST's single-axis tracker: a 1.4 kg mount carrying 4 kg, with a stepper motor and 1:101.25 gear train for ±10 arcseconds of periodic error over 10 minutes, open-source Wi-Fi control and polar scope, phone and star-pointer alignment.
Best for: A camera and a 300 mm lens under a dark sky, for someone who wants the tracking error on paper
Sidereal, lunar, solar and time-lapse speeds · 20 hours on 4 AA · 22.4 oz in the bullets, 23 oz in the title · LCD menu
SLIK's ECH-630: a compact motorized star tracker with sidereal, lunar, solar and time-lapse speeds, an LCD menu and up to 20 hours on four AA batteries, about the size of a 24-70 mm lens, with an optional SMH-250 polar head.
Best for: Backcountry night photography where batteries must be replaceable and the speed switchable
