Its a bit hectic here, and there is snow falling (but not sticking….yet) so we are going to keep this short with a couple of nifty science videos:
First, a demo of the Photoelectric effect (props to Terry Price for pointing this one out):
and our own Homopolar Motor!
Enjoy!
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Spectrum has recently added TimberKits to our product line. These are impressive wooden models that move at the turn of a crank:
This is the drummer kit, perhaps one of the most impressive, but hardly the only model. Spectrum also carries the Dragon, the T-Rex (or TimberSaur) and Ocean Motion.
You do the model assembly yourself, […]
Sun Photography? Cyanotypes? Sure we are familiar with them. After all we have carried Solar Photography kits pretty much ever since we opened! heck we have even done blog posts about them and they have been a consistent best-seller since we opened!
So why on Earth would we get excited about another Solar Photography kit…this time […]
Just minutes before this writing, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, also known as the SDO was launched and separated. This little space observatory will be examining our sun, especially its magnetic field to help understand how it affects our planet (and others in the solar system).
You can learn more about SDO and its mission at […]
With Philadelphia’s THIRD snowstorm of the winter bearing down on us as this blog post is being written it seems like as good a time as any to talk about the fun snow science experiments of viewing snowflakes in a microscope! It is simple and fun to do! You can even photograph them!
The question of […]
Specturm Scientifics now carries the Orion StarBlast 6i Intelliscope!
We’ve already discussed our addition of the regular StarBlast 6 which actually caught us a bit off guard with its sales. And now Orion has developed a computer guided version using its popular Intelliscope system!
The difference is that you get the Intelliscope computer guidance system, with a […]
Frequently, when we are discussing astronomy with customers (it comes with the territory when you sell telescopes) the subject of Pluto comes up and the customer usually asks us: “So, what happened to Pluto? All of a sudden they decide it isn’t a planet? What do you think of that?!”. A lot of these folks […]
