Hey all!
I'm putting this out there with currently very limited information and no images but I will get some soon.
My wifes grandmothers late husband 20 years ago drove down from Wangaratta to Melbourne and purchased a telescope. I believe it to be a 4" F/12 but I won't be able to really confirm anything until I get up there and have a closer look. I saw it once briefly in the corner of a room a few years ago.
The story is that he came down to Melbourne and purchased it from someone that made the telescope; ground the lens' and everything. I do remember looking at the lens cell briefly a few years ago and my thought is that it looked manufactured but had no company or persons name to give information as to where it's from. From memory it kinda reminded me of an older Sky Watcher achromat.
No sure if it is a doublet. Planning on taking a red laser with me to see if I can count lens grouping reflections. Assume that's the way
Red laser and torches is what I've got to use.
My query is whether anyone knows of someone in Melbourne that built refractors back around the year 2000. Believe it may have been paired with an EQ2.