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All photos Copyright Greg Bock.
All photos have been taken from various locations around south-east Queensland, except, 'Stonehenge' which was taken at Salisbury Plain, England, June 1987, the moon rise behind the water tanks which was taken in Victoria, Australia.

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Comet Neat, 2001 Q4. A total of 39, 5 second exposures over about 20 minutes..total exposure is 3 minutes and 15 secs between 11 May 2004, 10:25 UT to 10:45 UT Scope was Meade 10"LX200 at F3.3, seperate exposures combined using Maxim DL. Bannockburn Observatory, Queensland Australia	M20 Trifid Nebula 120 seconds self-guided ST8 at work, taken at a focal length of 1600mm, F6.3 through 10" Meade LX200	Comet Neat, 2001 Q4. A total of 70, 5 second exposures over about 25 minutes..total exposure is 5 minutes and 50 seconds between 12 May 2004, 9:49UT and 10:12 UT Scope was Meade 10"LX200 at F6.3, seperate exposures combined using Maxim DL. Note ion tail is not nearly as prominent as 11 May Bannockburn Observatory, Queensland Australia
Andromeda Galaxy Taken through a Newtonian telescope with 150mm diameter and focal length of 600mm.(F4)	Mars in the Milky Way The planet Mars glows like a brilliant burning ember amongst the Milky Way stars of the Scorpion. Note the smaller glowing red star beneath Mars known as Antares. Dark lanes of dust between the stars of the Milky Way obscure the light of the stars behind. Taken through a 50mm lens.	Planet Jupiter and Globular cluster, M22 Taken through a Newtonian telescope with 150mm diameter and focal length of 600mm.(F4). Jupiter is very overexposed which was necessary in order to get a good exposure of the globular cluster which is located thousands of light years away!
Comet Hale-Bopp - Photo 1 Taken through a 50mm lens in May 1997. The overexposed crescent moon hangs above the comet as the sun sets on the horizon.	Comet Hyakutake Taken through a 210mm lens at F4.5 in April 1996	Comet Hale-Bopp - Photo 2 Taken through a 50mm lens in May 1997. The overexposed crescent moon hangs above the comet as the sun sets on the horizon. This photo shows the stars just beginning to appea r.
Mars in the constellation of Scorpius The planet Mars glows like a brilliant burning ember amongst the Milky Way stars of the Scorpion. Note the smaller glowing red star beneath Mars known as Antares. Dark lanes of dust between the stars of the Milky Way obscure the light of the stars behind. Taken through a 50mm lens	The Emu in the Southern Sky The emu stretches from the top right hand corner to the bottom left in this wide-angle 40mm exposure of the Milky Way near the Southern Cross.	Scorpius Outlined The photo shows the connections between the stars that make up the constellation of Scorpius.
The Constellation of the Southern Cross This is a magical area of sky to the naked eye!. This photo was taken through a 50mm lens at f2 for 12 minutes in march 1996. Note the two 'Pointers' to the left of the Cross, and the glowing red nebulosity to the right of the Cross, known as the 'Eta Carina Nebula'	Eta Carina Nebula Taken through a 300mm telephoto lens, at F5.6 .	The Winter Milky Way The glowing band of our Milky Way galaxy is enhanced in this view taken on a cold winter's night. The enhancement process highlights red glowing nebulosity, and dark lanes of dust threading their way through the galaxy.
Moon Rising behind Water Tanks The rising moon is very overexposed as it silhouettes the water tanks on a farm in northwestern Victoria in 1985.	Stonehenge, England This photo of the famous standing stones was taken as the sun was beginning to set over them in June 1987	Lightning Ground Strike A close ground strike about 1am, November 5, 1995 lit up the neighborhood!
Planets Venus and Jupiter rising. Taken through a 50mm lens as both planets were rising about 4am. The long exposure leaves long colourful trails from the stars and two planets.	The Moon setting. The setting moon is captured beside a farmhouse on a hill on the same night that the photos of Comet Hale-Bopp were taken in May 1997.	Greg Bock's Observatory The observatory is located in Bannockburn, Queensland, Gold Coast, and was completed in March 2002 and houses a Meade 10" LX200 telescope coupled with a Starlight Xpress MX516 CCD camera for conducting photo-imaging surveys of galaxies for exploding stars known as 'supernovae'.