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Hi Matt
Not too sure of the mounting head configuration of your EQ6, but a block of wood cut to that width should be sufficiently rigid to hold just the camera and a lens?
I cut a block of wood with a longitudinal dovetail profile for my Vixen GPDX mount and the mount head screw “bites” into the wood so the block is unlikely to slide out! I fitted a ¼” Whitworth bolt (or ¼” UNC) so that the exposed length of bolt wasn’t so long that it bottoms out in the ¼” tripod socket on the base on the camera. This set up however, does limit the framing of objects, based on how well you can point the mount.
Other than that, I know that Sirius Optics stock some (Orion?) dovetail bars and if one fits your mount, you could drill and tap a hole and then fit a ball & socket head so you can orient the camera nicely. The bars may even have existing holes that are countersunk so you could just use a low profile socket head cap screw to attach a tripod head mount?
Cheers
Dennis
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