Yeast at 400X
Posted on 06/06/2009 6:20:58 PM PDT by djf
Yesterday, I was at a surplus store and came across a microscope.
It is a Swift's Collegiate Series SCM-12, the light is still perfect.
I have no slides but contacted a hobby store and tomorrow will pick up a box.
So my question is very general. I had a cheapo plastic one as a kids, but that was decades (and more decades!) ago. I am curious about hints and tips for successfully looking at the tiny world around us. My personal blood, water samples, stains, preparing and preserving slides, anything you know to help a person begin this would be appreciated!
Dogpile
You might want to check out a digital camera attachment for your microscope.
You’re right! I should.
Last winter, when it snowed, I put some glass panes in the freezer, then put them outside, and have some pretty high powered hand magnifiers to look at the flakes.
Camera would help me get familiar with and categorize the stuff I find.
You will need immersion oil so that you can use the 100x oil-immersion lens.
http://www.microscopesnewandused.com/item15190.ctlg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_immersion
Thx.
Interesting. So the oil doesn’t just cover the stuff you’re looking at, the lens itself actually enters the oil “pool”.
Think I will start by playing with the lower powers first!
If you want to have some real fun, get a telescope.
Use caution, though.
It’s addicting.
Once you see Jupiter and Saturn as big as a quarter held at half-arm’s length from your eyes, along with their rings and moons.....
Have fun with your new you.
possibly of interest:
Slideshow: Now you see it...
Nature News | June 2009 | NA
Posted on 06/06/2009 11:54:06 PM PDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2266521/posts
I had a 6” B&L reflector for many years, and it sat in the closet most of the time.
If you live near Seattle and own a telescope, trust me, it will sit in the closet a lot!
Actually, I was watching Jupiter with it the night Shoemaker-Levy hit. Didn’t see much difference, but it was kinda cool to be there watching real time, so to speak!
Yeast at 400X
Looks like a thong on an egg.
That lamp has been through hell, eh?
Still works!
If it’s at all possible, note the resolution (400x) in this case, on the picture itself before archiving. I suspect it will save a lot of confusion later.
"Oh, that's Monica all right. Flashed me that and got me into LOTS of trouble, that one did..."
Is there any microscope that can connect to your computer monitor for easy viewing? Something not too expensive, for homeschooling? It is so hard to get MY eyes to work on the scope at the exact focus they might work at for kids of varying ages.
This is what I found with a quick search.
http://store.amscope.com/md300.html
This is a color USB PC digital camera for microscopes that captures microscope images and displays live video on PC screens. It comes with a color USB digital camera, user-friendly software and adapters for all kinds of industrial standard microscopes. It provides 640x480 pixel high resolution and is compatible with Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista. With the user friendly software included, you can edit microscope images in the same way as you use PhotoShop. You can record videos, capture still images, and save them in BMP, TIFF, JPG, PICT, PTL and other formats. You can also conduct length, angle, area and other measurements across images. Its built-in reduction lens gives the same field of view images on your PC screen as those seen through eyepieces. This camera fits all monocular, binocular, trinocular, stereo, dissecting and other microscopes.
I saw one that costs only $36 with 400 power magnification.
I lost the URL, but it is a plastic kids science thingy.
It is out there at a toy store somewhere.
Lace thong at full size
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