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Two Hundred Light Years

August 23, 2011 // 0 Comments

Perspective:  One can get it when one looks at things from a new or different vantage point. Having the proper perspective is important in contemplating everyday things. It [...]

Manga Guide: The Universe

August 17, 2011 // 0 Comments

We have read a few of the books (Electricity, Molecular Biology, Databases) in the Manga Guide collection and have found them to be both entertaining and educational. In [...]

Last Space Shuttle Flight

July 8, 2011 // 0 Comments

NASA’s  Space Shuttle program began almost forty years ago. Today, it blasted offfor the last time. When the program was officially launched by President Nixon on [...]

Thunderclouds

June 10, 2011 // 0 Comments

The 90º heat in Boston finally broke yesterday and it did it in dramatic fashion. Around 4PM in the afteroon, clouds started to form overhead. In the span of less than [...]

Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries

June 6, 2011 // 0 Comments

We  here at RainyDayMagazine are fascinated by dinosaurs. While decendents of dinosaurs are all around us (birds, reptiles, etc…) none of them are of the size of the [...]

PED3 Mount

May 20, 2011 // 0 Comments

When  we mentioned that we were looking for an appropriate tripod mount for the iPhone, a few readers pointed us to a couple of possibilities. Of all the suggestions, the [...]

iPhone Microscope Outside

May 16, 2011 // 0 Comments

Last week we posted a write-up of the Brando iPhone4 microscope lens. It generated a bit of email asking if the setup is at all practical out “in the field.” [...]

iPhone Microscope

May 10, 2011 // 0 Comments

We came across a DIY article on the Crabfu Artworks website last September on how to turn the iPhone into a portable digital microscope. We thought the idea was ingenious. [...]

Get-A-Grip FirstLook

May 5, 2011 // 0 Comments

What  is the best way of pickup a telescope that’s the size of a keg of beer? Bear hugging it is our typical approach. While the mounting assistant makes it [...]

NEAF 2011: Wrap up

April 28, 2011 // 0 Comments

This is the final installment of the 2011 NEAF Conference write-ups. It was our first time attending the Expo and it was excellent. We got to meet and chat with like-minded [...]
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