If they were type II like people are saying I'm sure they have much better viewing equipment/processes than us
That is irrelevant. The law is that information absolutely can't travel faster than the speed of light and anything with mass can't travel anywhere in the same zip code as light as far as speed goes. While they may be able to look further with more precision, they are still limited by the same factors.
Unless they somehow managed to find a way to utilize the possibilities that the theory of relativity claims, that you can traverse time same as you can move in space, but that's beyond our comprehension currently.