No. Not unless you are a contortionist. EQ mounts do not work. Some have tried. Including myself. You really need a tall eg. 7ft. heavy duty Manfrotto / Bogen type tripod with crank so you can get 'under' the binos to view. Below is a good site to view with some sound advice.
If you can “convert” the eq mount to an Alt-Az mount and balance the binos with sufficient counter weights, you might find some usefulness in the slow motion controls. The conversion would require the RA shaft to be set to 0 degrees altitude, as if you were observing on the equator.
Even if this were possible, the DEC shaft may then foul the tripod?
i agree an eq mount is unsuitable - i have a vixen polaris which can be set to 90dg & hence run in alt/az mode is unsuitable. a P-mount is what you need ..they are expensive in australia but so are manfrotto 055/fluid heads. you can make a fixed p-mount if you can get by with moving your chair instead of the mount up/down
I think that the (older) Super Polaris could be set to 0 degrees which makes it feasible to use as an Alt-Az mount, whereas my Vixen GPDX can only be set to 90 degrees making it unsuitable.
It has an AZ3 mount as it's base. The actual AltAz part of the mount is removed.
It should be a fairly simple project to make up a parallelgram mount to suit the AZ3 (or EQ3)
I've just looked at the (Celestron) Super Polaris mount I have and you can set it to 0 degrees, not sure how practical it would be. The Vixen GP mount which is very similar doesn't appear to allow the same 0 degree setting but I didn't try real hard..
