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Hi Andrew,
Not to directly answer your question, however I previously owned an AZ-EQ6, and from what I saw design wise it was a superior mount to the standard EQ6 (which I haven't owned), a couple of differences, the AZ version is belt driven out of the box, has position encoders and has a far superior altitude adjuster. I set it up once in ALT-AZ mode but only for visual due to the limitations you have already mentioned, the only 2 advantages I could see were removing the need to polar align and have the mount perform an N star alignment, and the ability to have 2 scopes setup on 2 dovetails rather than having to use a side by side dovetail system, one either side of the mount head. I have since moved onto a G11 (no alt-az and not missing it).
Anders
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