BackToSchool 2019 : Off To College Gear
Ah, Fall. Autumn, to use its proper name. A special, special time of year…when kids go back to school. Yesssssss! If you are one of the “lucky” parents, [...]
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RainyDayGiftGuide 2017: Smartphone Astrophotography
The Holiday Season is upon us again! As in years past, we have assembled a fantastic series of GiftGuides full of interesting ideas for our RainyDayMagazine readers. Our [...]
Questar : Solar Eclipse 2017
Of all the telescopes in our RainyDayScience collection, the 3.5″ Questar is our favorite for a variety of reasons: amazingly sharp optics, quick to setup, and [...]
BinocCam : Google Pixel and Fujinon KF 10×32
In 2014 we did an article on digiscoping using our Vanguard spotting scope. Three years later we have found a different, easier, technique that also works in more [...]
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, [...]
WORX Pegasus – FirstLook
We “unwrapped” an awesome worktable from WORX this Holiday weekend. The WORX Pegasus is both a multi-function worktable and a heavy-duty saw horse. This [...]
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 [...]
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