Bausch & Lomb 8001 pro

Hi all. New to the site. Just getting back into astronomy after many years of not having a telescope. I picked up a Bausch&lomb 8001 Pro. The guy I got it from was an engineer at B&L in east hartford ct and said this scope was an early version. The tripod is a heavy version that they decided not to use due to cost.
I am looking for the manual for this scope but have not found a pdf file anywhere and the folks at Bushnell said they didn't have anything for that model. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Philip Tetrault said:

Hi all. New to the site. Just getting back into astronomy after many years of not having a telescope. I picked up a Bausch&lomb 8001 Pro. The guy I got it from was an engineer at B&L in east hartford ct and said this scope was an early version. The tripod is a heavy version that they decided not to use due to cost.
I am looking for the manual for this scope but have not found a pdf file anywhere and the folks at Bushnell said they didn't have anything for that model. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I can probably answer your questions. There's really not much in the manual that's overly necessary...it is at heart a simple telescope.

The good? This was the best, really the only, good SCT B&L/Criterion ever produced.

Oh, you may be interested in reading the material on your scope in my (free) Used SCT Guide:

http://skywatch.brainiac.com/used/index.htm