Vixen Polarie Time Lapse Adapter – FirstLook
When the RainyDayCrew went to Maine this Summer for a little getaway, we brought along our Vixen Polarie StarTracker for some astrophotography; Maine has wide-open skies and [...]
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Urban Safari: Starry starry night…
The RainyDayCrew had a very relaxing month of August, away from the rigors of playing with gadgets/testing out new tech/generally fiddling with the stuff that shows up [...]
A second life for a Bausch & Lomb Criterion 4000 SCT
The RainyDayInterns, like many folks, have Craigslist search alerts to notify them when items of interest pop up for sale. An alert for a telescope crossed their screens [...]
PAPAGO! GoSafe 268
We are not big car guys in the sense that we don’t all excited about the cars themselves. We are, however, big car tech/gadgets guys. Which is why, over the years, our [...]
Urban Safari: Strawberry Moon
There was a full moon on June 20, 2016; it is sometimes called the Strawberry Moon (because it occurs when strawberry season starts). It just also happened to be the Summer [...]
Starlight Instruments: FocusLynx software and Camera Installation
Last month we completed the hardware installation of the Focuser Boss II hub and controller. We can now manually control the focusing of the Celestron C6 OTA with the [...]
LapWorks mount for tablets and such
Over the years, RainyDayMagazine has looked at a lot of accessories—cases, mounts, etc.—for smartphones and tablets and the like. While accessories designed for a [...]
WenPod Gimbal Stabilizers FirstLook
Back in 2006, we put together the setup that allowed us to take hands-free digital video while hiking, we called it the AdventureCam. Back then, we had to use a small [...]
MiniWing Camile BikeCam FirstLook
What would you get if you threw a bike computer and a GoPro into a blender? If you are lucky you might end up with something cool like the MiniWing Camile. This [...]
Nikon School : DSLR Video Workshop
We switched from Olympus to Nikon when we went from film to digital more than a decade ago. While the Nikon DSLR gear we have is video-capable, we rarely used it for video [...]
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