Overview: Preliminary Set Up
SAM is a compact and versale camera tracking plaorm that lets you
make truly unique photographs and me-lapse videos. The high pre-
cision motor rotates your camera to pan across any angle you desire
giving you full creave control over your me-lapse composion.
For astrophotography, SAM’s precise sidereal tracking enables long
exposures to capture brilliant colour and detail in dim nebulae and
star clouds while maintaining pin point star images. Use SAM to
capture stunning starscapes, or to make portraits of your favourite
constellaons. You can even congure SAM’s astrophotography me-
lapse funcons to record the progress of a lunar eclipse!
SAM features full shuer control for many DSLR cameras along with
many other funcons by means of the free Star Adventurer mini
Console – available for your Android or iOS device. With its high
precision tracking and powerful free app, SAM gives you a new tool
with countless creave possibilies.
And now it’s me to get to know SAM in more detail! Please read each
secon carefully to understand how to set SAM up for a parcular ap-
plicaon and how to control SAM using the free control app.
Installing the Star Adventurer mini Console
The Star Adventurer mini Console is available at the Android “Play
Store”for your Android device and at the “App Store” for your iOS
device. Go to your parcular store, search for “Star Adventurer mini
Console”, then download and install. The app performs the same way
for both operang systems. Detailed use of the app is provided in the
relevant secons.
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