John Salini, former president and still active member of the Astronomical Association of Queensland chooses an 18” f4.5 as his observatory showpiece.

John plans to install his new scope at his dark sky site in the granite belt, housed in a roll-off-roof observatory which is currently under construction. His main interest lies in visual work, but John is planning to use the 18” for astrophotography too so his scope is coming fully loaded for ArgoNavis and ServoCAT.

SDM#010 is due for delivery early next year to coincide with the completion of the observatory. John’s acquisition will take the AAQ’s tally of SDM scopes to three!