Behind the lens

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

£75, GOST, hardcover, 144 pages, 98 images, 258x350mm Portrait: ISBN 978-1-915423-57-3

Santa Ynez, California-based Heather Daenitz won this year’s ...

I’m responding to an article by Pete Lawrence in the April 2025 issue, titled ‘Flora crosses the Leo Triplet’ (Big Three, in the Sky Guide), which spurred me to have a look for this minor planet. I al

Andrea Arbizzi, Modena, Italy, December 2024–April 2025 Andrea says: “PuWe 1 is a tough, faint target and even more so from my Bortle 8 sky! But after 28 hours and some intensive processing, I was abl

One of Nikon’s last DSLRs, the pro-spec D850 still has a lot to offer, as John Gilbey discovers