ballisticbrian

It's very thick low cloud tonight and you can only see the moon from an awkward part of the garden so I will probably not be able to try it tonight. No - I don't think there is a mirror or prism going spare. I haven't as yet removed the installed eye piece from the sight or the telescope but it wont be in there will it? Also, I looked at the thread about a similar model that White Dwarf mentioned and that model does come with at least 2 more eye pieces so I could be missing some bits (plus I mentioned no glass in the 2x Bartholomew). Could be missing some bits then, but hopefully nothing that will stop a newbie getting going?

Thank you for all the info, I love finding out about old equipment. Here are the pics. Wrapped up in paper is he "sun" filter (I understand don't risk old sun filters), there is no glass in the Bartholemew 2x eye piece, another complete eye piece to the one installed and can anyone tell me what the black round "off set" eye piece is please?

Hello, first post. I just bought a Hilkin telescope t-705 at a boot sale this morning. It's my first telescope! I found this web site because I googles the model number but the old thread from 10 years ago didn't shed much light on it. It's a f1000mm / 77mm on a rather substantial and heavy tripod. There a couple of eye pieces and a huge box it all goes in. I have had a keen interest in Astronomy for many years but I have a slight night blindness problem which means smaller stars disappear when I look at them and I assume this is because I spent too much time laying in the school field staring at the sun as a child (yes - really). I'm hoping that because I can see bigger stars and planets I will be able to see them through the telescope but I won't know until later. Although may be too cloudy anyway. Does anyone around now-days know anything about Hilkin? Aparently what I found out was they imported Japanese optics in the 70's / 80's and are now a company concerned mainly with binoculars.