/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11664139
awesome gif bro, happy halloween to you as well

>>11664148
LOL HELL YA

what objectives do you have? got any polarization filters?

>>11664139
>>11664148
>>11664152
what

>>11664154
It has 4x, 10x, 40x and 100x lens on it. I also have a green disc thing that might be a polarization filter, a camera eye piece, and two 10x and 20x eye peices.

>>11664178
nah that's probably something for conditioning the light, not a polarizer.

pollen's cool to look at under the scope, you can pull algae and plankton out of any natural body of water

>>11664212
walked up to a random flower, this is what pollen looks like? I could've sworn it was more ball shaped
Also sorry for the shit quality, it looks way clearer with the other eye pieces but this is the only camera peice i have

fuck guys, just "killed" a tiny fly and put it under the scope. I was trying to get to good angle with my flashlight to post a pic of it, but it suddenly flinched and freaked me out, then it stood up and started walking inside of my microscope. I have no idea where it is now.

>>11664430
LOL ZOMBIE FLY IS COMING FOR YOU IT WANTS IT'S REVENGE IT WILL HAVE IT'S REVENGE

>>11664262
pollen shape and size can vary from species to species, and it can get wild.

>>11665351
>>11664262
also yeah that looks like pollen to me. Also, one trick i've used in the past is to hold my phone's camera up to the eyepiece. it's not a scientific-grade sensor but it'll give you way prettier pictures than a camera that truly integrates with the scope

pic related, it's a picture of bacterial biofilm i took with my phone through the eyepiece

>>11664135
onions, nice big cells
cork too
I got this dissecting microscope out of the trash at my university and it works perfectly fine

If you have phelgm or a tooth scraper you could see the cells in mucus or teeth bacteria

For further inquiry, I recommend two websites, Microbehunter, a forum and Microscopy UK, a UK based amateur microscopy magazine

Finally, new no-name microscopes are inferior to well used scopes of brands like Zeiss,Leica,Olympus,etc. You can find many German sites but a site in English is photomacrography.net, a photomacrography board with a selling forum.

3D Movie Filter Lens when crossed together form a polarizer. You could then dissolve common medication with water and ethanol to make beautiful crystals.

>>11664135
Could you look at a virus? Like a corona virus?

11667835 Nope the virus is too small to be resolved by light

>>11664139
>>11664152
Zodiac?

this hair is from my balls, doesn't it look badass?

>>11668601
and this is the setup lol :d my mum bought this when i was 6 and i'm still using it time to time desu. i'm studying genetics and mol. bio btw.

>>11668321
DELEET THIS

>>11664135
unironically sperm.
I ended up watching my dad's since he was a med student and made some slides, so basically i saw my competitors.

>>11664135
I didn't want to open a nee thread to ask this...But how would fare the use of electronic microscopes to quickly detect and recognize in mass viral infections?

>>11664135
Depends on what optics you have. Most fun thing, in my opinion, is pondwater/ flushed moss. Small insects with largely opaque carapaces are interesting too. Small eggs (have seen some of the weirdest, alien-looking abominations this way) and swabs of random gunk laying about. Hand lenses can be just as fun when looking at larger plants and animals. Transmitted vs reflected light, different filters, etc. all change what looks good/ is viewable.