Very nice!!! Lightweight; easy to polar align; tracks per speed settings.

I've been doing astrophotography since days of using hypered film, and typically piggyback on one of my telescopes. However, it is a hassle and I tend not to shoot as much as I'd like. So - I wanted a tracker. Did lots of research and ended up with the Skytracker Pro. Polar alignment is easy. Build quality is very good. Easy to use and operate. Make sure you use a heavy-duty tripod. Use a good ball joint. iOptron makes one, but there are many available. I personally use Sirui ball joints. I use only prime focus lenses, as they are lighter (in general) to zooms, and they are typically much Sharper - and provide better center of gravity reducing balance issues. I use a range of lenses; 10.5mm full-frame fisheye, 16mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm, and a 300mm mirror lens (Yes, a mirror lens. It is very light and small and works great for this mount). With these lenses my maximum weight with camera and ball joint is max about 4 pounds. That is another reason I chose the Skytracker Pro because I did not want to have to use a counter-weight system. I just want to set up and shoot. I do highly recommend using a Lonely Speck SharpStar precision focusing filter - you will get perfect image focus, period (which is vey hard otherwise for astro work). Make sure to tighten everything up or you will have problems. My only gripe with B&H is that I wanted the red one, but received the black one.
I've included the very first image I shot using the Skytracker Pro. The day I received it I set it up and went out at night and it was pretty clear out. I shot 20 photos in succession with Nikon 85mm at f3.5 ISO 1600 20 seconds each. Stacked them in Photoshop and this is the result. I live at the beach in Florida, and it is dark where I live, but the air is thick at times. After I stacked in PS, I was amazed at the image quality using the Skytracker Pro. Love it and definitely recommend it.

Wow! It sure is a pleasure to use a well designed, crafted, and executed piece of hardware, that works as advertised! It is amazing how pleasurable it makes the task (for a beginner like me) to use the 'proper tool for the job'. I really can't compare it to other offerings, but, this one is just a joy to use. I was able to make an accurate polar alignment in less than 5 minutes, spend most of my time (about 5 min) trying to focus at infinity in the dark, and then take many great 30 sec exposures with my 200mm kit zoom lens! I also purchased the associated Ball Head v2 and the 1.25 Stainless Steel Tripod for SmartEQ and SkyTracker-- they all work so well together.

I have been doing tracked astrophotography for decades. Previously I had done it with my cameras piggybacked on a telescope or directly mounted on a German Equatorial Mount. I finally decided to try out using a sky tracking camera mount and decided on the iOptron SkyTracker Pro because it (with the optional Counterweight Kit) could handle my Nikon D7200 DSLR + Tamron 150-600mm lens. For wide angle sky astrophotography (8mm fisheye, 18mm) the SkyTracker worked well. But what really surprised me was how well it tracked when using a 300mm lens and even the 600mm focal length. I was able to photograph the Andromeda Galaxy and the Horsehead Nebula. If you live in a dark sky location like I do, you should give night sky photography a try. Using the iOptron SkyTracker Pro you will get some amazing photos!

I have tested this unit only once. It showed good tracking- nice round stars after a two minute exposure. That said, I was using an 18mm focal length, so this wasn't a challenge trial. The polar alignment scope is a pleasure to use and very accurate

This is a nice product, seems really well built and is very compact making it easy to transport around with your other gear. Shipping was nice and quick from the US. If you are new to the whole tracking thing then the instructions are a bit cryptic and you need to do some research and learning to figure out some of what it is talking about. You also need to buy an app (ideally) to help you with polar alignment but hey it's only 2 bucks! Note that in the southern hemisphere you need to align to polaris australis which is quite low down in the southern sky and quite faint. You need nice dark skies in order to polar align accurately otherwise you are manually aligning which is never perfect.

I am very pleased with this unit which is replacing the original SkyTracker camera mount. I now have the capability to track on the Sun (for the Solar Eclipse in Aug 2017) and on the Moon which I could not do with the original camera mount.

I purchased this for the August 21 eclipse which was also the first time I used it. Despite my lack of experience or practice with it beforehand, I managed to accomplish a daytime polar alignment using an app and I was able to get everything set up without a problem. The Skytracker Pro performed great despite the fact that I was using gear that was heavier than the specs on unit provided. I am not impressed by most things I buy, but this time I definitely was!

My first couple nights using this were tough, not gonna lie. I live south of Buffalo, NY and I deal with a lot of light pollution up north. That being said it's hard to distinguish Polaris when polar aligning. This whole week the skies have been clear and after a week I have my setup all ready within 10 minutes max. I used a couple lens with the largest being a 300mm focal length and at 3 minutes with that I got no star trails. This is definitely worth the price and more and I highly recommend this for a starter star tracker!

Compared to original version this is a big improvement. Listing them here: 1) No more carrying AA batteries and working with that bad battery cover in older version. Now you can charge it through USB and rated for 24 hours. 2) Form factor is smaller and well balanced than older version 3) The removable base is a great addition and it is improved compared to older version. If you have ball head add a right plate to the device and you don't have to carry another weight in your bag 4) Easy to align with ioptron polar app and works without scope for 2 minute exposures 5) For more than 2 minute exposures polar align is necessary and its easy to do with the app. 6) Have a polaris finder app so you can point it at the right direction with latitude adjusted on the base first. 7) I added RRS BH-30 ball head which is the best light weight option and works well. I don't have any CONS as of now and I bought this device directly from iOptron as I stumbled upon this release when I was trying to buy older version. Warning: Do not I repeat Do not add ball head to the device without removing the plate off the device. I would have destroyed my OTUS 28mm and camera by doing this. The reason being when you screw ball head without removing the plate it unscrews at the bottom where you can switch out 3/8 to 1/4 threads. Always remove the plate to tighten the ball head, I was lucky nothing bad happened and I notice towards the end of my exposures. Hope you enjoy this device like I do.