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Hi all,
 
I recently bought Canon 6D for wide field shots - Milky Way with 35mm 85mm and 135mm.

I understand that it’s recommended to Astro modify it so I bought the Baader BCF2 filter but I also read that in some cases this filter can create halos or false color. 
there are a lot of methods and I am really stuck with which one to choose:
1. Remove LPF#1 , replace LPF#2 with Baader filter
2. Replace LPF#2 with Baader filter and keep LPF#1
3. remove LPF#1 and #2 (no Baader filter)
4. Remove only LPF#2 and keep LPF#1 (no Baader filter)
 
I think I will go with #2 - for the Baader mod, how many turns do I need to add to the adjustment screws of the sensor (if any) , and is it matter (turns wise) if I keep LPF#1 or not ? 
 
Will be happy to hear from someone who has done both modes and can help with that 
thanks in advance ! 

P.s If anyone also have a tutorial on how to blacken the led (SD card) that would be great !

39 minutes ago, tooth_dr said:

This is the M54 thread itself:

<ThreadDesignation>M54x0.75</ThreadDesignation>

<CTD>M54x0.75</CTD>

<Pitch>0.75</Pitch>

-<Thread>

<Gender>external</Gender>

<Class>6g</Class>

<MajorDia>53.908</MajorDia>

<PitchDia>53.4409</PitchDia>

<MinorDia>53.0475</MinorDia>

</Thread>

-<Thread>

<Gender>internal</Gender>

<Class>6H</Class>

<MajorDia>54.1201</MajorDia>

<PitchDia>53.5789</PitchDia>

<MinorDia>53.2831</MinorDia>

<TapDrill>53.25</TapDrill>

</Thread>

-<Thread>

<Gender>external</Gender>

<Class>4g6g</Class>

<MajorDia>53.908</MajorDia>

<PitchDia>53.4594</PitchDia>

<MinorDia>53.066</MinorDia>

</Thread>

Amazing thank you !!! 

1 minute ago, tooth_dr said:

I've printed M54 0.75 male ok, I'm at work so cant access the figures, but can post them later if you arent sorted. 

Appreciate it thanks !

I'm trying to get M54 x 0.75 thread specs

All that I've found is the internal :

<MajorDia>54.000</MajorDia>
<PitchDia>53.671</PitchDia>
<MinorDia>53.378</MinorDia>

But I don't know what is the class or if it's even correct

Hi all, 

Recently my NEQ6 Pro mount started to make squeaky noises when trying to balance it (no noises when slewing or guiding) 

The Rowan belt mod kit was installed about two years ago and it tracks "Ok" (.5" on a good night with, .8-9" on a bad night)

I've uploaded to my drive what I mean (too large for the forum upload) - https://drive.google...rRbBvGVv7II-gXQ

Try to ignore the shouting kid in the background 😁

Before I start tearing it apart, any idea what can be the issue ? 

My plan is to order all the necessary bearings and grease and replace them, but obviously I want to avoid it... 

Thanks ! 

FLO has offered to refund me for the cable, but I had to check few last things - Issue seems to be resolved :

1. connected the cable to a USB2.0 port (the other port was a working USB 3.0, confirmed nothing is wrong with it)

2. In device manager ->  port settings ->  Advanced :
          -> Receive (Bytes) lowered to 2048 

          -> Transmit (Bytes) lowered to 2048 

7 hours session no disconnects

16 hours ago, cuivenion said:

What mount is it?

It's a NEQ6-Pro 

13 hours ago, blinky said:

Nope, ended up sending it back, tried 2 cables and they were both the same. Dont know what the problem is, I still suspect its a windows or driver issue rather than a problem with the cable.

I sent an email to FLO, checking if they ever heard about this issue. Will wait for them to respond. 

I'm going to increase the Baud to 115200, changing the USB power management configurations, and hope for the best. 

On 21/05/2020 at 03:13, blinky said:

I ordered a Lynx Astro EQMod/Dir cable from FLO a few weeks ago but I seem to be having issues with it....  Its on Com7 (just in case that matters!) and every so often it looses connection to EQMod, or rather EQMod reports it's lost connection to the mount.  I assume its only momentary as the symptoms are things like when parking it will suddenly decide it is parked, at some random point in the sky. When doing drift alignment tonight, it was like the mount suddenly started moving in RA, I could hear the motors tone change and the star started moving, I clicked stop in PHD2 then started drifting again and it was fine for a while then it happened again - PHD2 reports no errors talking to the mount.  It does not do it all the time though, but this has only started happening since I changed from an old Shoestring astro cable and USB to serial converter, was rock solid before!  If i look in the status window of EQMod I can see it reporting communication errors, which I've never seen before with the old cable.

Do you think I have a faulty cable?  Im not getting any windows errors, not getting the USB disconnected bing bong in Windows etc but something is not right - ideas? I dont want to go back to FLO and ask for a replacement till I've spoken to folks on here and gathered some opinions!

Did you solve this issue ? 

I have the exact same problem