Behind the lens

If you’re planning to enter our Night and Low Light round, which launches next week, take these tips from three of last year’s top ten photographers

Planetary physicist Dr Sheila Kanani on why now is the time to spot shooting stars and a sunlit Saturn

I looked out of the window before bed while on holiday in Orkney in mid-August and was delighted to see my first-ever noctilucent cloud display! The reflections in the still waters of the Bay of Firth

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

Ben Geier’s photographs affectionately capture fast-vanishing relics of ’50s and ’60s roadside Americana. He aims to find subjects that evoke a sense of nostalgia and solitude, he tells David Clark

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them