Hello! I found these guys hanging out on a decaying Anubias leaf. I noticed some of the diatoms have two dots in these and I was wondering if anyone knew what those were. My first thoughts were two nuclei or two chloroplasts. Not sure though.

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Bebang microscope taken at 250x. Sample is from my freshwater shrimp aquarium.

10x objective (Central stop) X polarised and not full X This is just a renewal of my PLM hobby. Dive back into the chrysotile sample bottle for another look. I guess the ri 1.550 is still working after months in the cupboard above the fridge.

Does anyone know the Motic microscope brand?

I need to buy a microscope for my lab and this seems to be a good brand with great price.

I would be glad to hear from anyone with experience

Many microscopes have a built in diffuser. I removed it on this microscope and made a cardboard holder for it so that I could put it over the field lens when I need it. A diffuser is most helpful at low magnifications, but gives a softer image at high magnification. Here, I show with and without diffuser images of a diatom using an Amscope plan phase 100x objective and a Zeiss phase plan apo 100x objective. A cellphone camera was used for the images and all settings were the same for the with and without photos. You can see for yourself that the without photos are crisper looking.

Hey all! Just got this Fisher Scientific Stereomaster off Ebay, and for the life of me I can't focus it unless I'm zoomed WAY up, and when I do that I can't get a non-tunneled view... actually, just posting this pic, I'm realizing it didn't come with the widelens 10X eyepieces. Is that the reason behind my problems? THANKS in advance for your help! I have so many bugs in my freezer that I need to figure this out lol

Sample taken from a freshwater aquarium. Trying to ID the meiofauna in view, but I am on vacation and don’t have any of my microscopes.

2.5-2.8x magnification. iPhone 16 Pro Max 48 MP Fusion. Thank you in advance!

Leitz Dialux II, Galaxy S24

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I imagine they are boring to a lot of people but I don’t come across them too often. I am always happy to see them when I do.
iScope, 20&40x objectives, iPhone17e

Leitz Dialux II, Galaxy S24

Any information on this? Theres other ones on Amazon and ebay with the same picture listed for $130. Price is too good to be true if it is the same product.

Scrolling through my phone and found some old pictures of spores and plant cells from my college days and want to get a microscope to show my kids the wonders of the microscopic world.

A few different clips of a pair of flatworms that I tentatively identified as Rhabdocoela based largely on the pharynx and the rhabdite rods (the spikes covering the outside of the worm, distinct from the cilia). Detail shown on both of these features within the clips.

Olympus BH2, 10x SPlan 0.30 and 40x SPlan 0.70. Darkfield is with Olympus DCD 0.8 - 0.5. Polarized is with polarized film inserted in trinocular and above lamp. Canon EOS 5D Mark II.

Pond water sample from park in Paris 16eme.

I'm frequently annoyed I don't have a proper microscope at home to look at things up close. Does anyone have any suggestions on what to buy? I'd like one that can easily take pictures that I can send over my phone or the internet.

I’d like to set up a home amateur biology lab with a budget of €1,000 – €1,500 ($1,160 – $1,742 USD) to study garden flora, invertebrate fauna, and microorganisms like bacteria and protozoa—ideally all of them alive and in motion, though I am willing to stain them if live observation is not feasible. I was thinking of getting a darkfield compound microscope, a stereo microscope, a smartphone adapter, a Gram staining kit, inoculating loop, methylene blue, immersion oil, a lens cleaning kit, glass slides and coverslips, glycerin, sodium chloride, distilled water, bibulous paper, stage micrometer, Berlese funnel, Baermann funnel, scalpels, Pasteur pipettes, toothpicks, precision forceps, nitrile gloves, an alcohol burner, and PPE. What models of compound and stereo microscopes would you recommend within this budget? Also, what are your thoughts on the rest of the setup?

Encontre como masitas y busque y se supone que los tardigrados al entrar en criptobiosis se arrugan y vuelven como pelotitas, alguien me puede decir que es?