EXO Labs : Camera On C6
The RainyDayScience folks got a digital camera from EXO Labs four years ago. While EXO Labs couldn’t make a long term go of it, they did make an excellent product, [...]
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MOS: Da Vinci – The Genius
We at RainyDayMagazine are fascinated with any and all things related to Leonardo da Vinci, so when we heard that the exhibit Da Vinci – The Genius was coming to the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Starlight Instruments: Focuser Boss II Hub & Controller
In the last post in this series we showed how to replace the manual knobs with the motorized focuser. Now we will show how to complete the setup of the remaining pieces [...]
Starlight Instruments: Focuser Boss II Motor Install
The Starlight Instrument FeatherTouch knob upgrade we installed last June on our Celestron 6″ OTA was a huge improvement in our ability to precisely dial in the focus [...]
Augmented Reality on the iPhone
Augmented Reality, or AR, is when the interns ask “Hey, is that a unicorn in the RainyDayGarden?” or exclaim “Cool! A whale is breaching in the [...]
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