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I just brought a microscope

Keep posting pictures!

Years ago there was a thread where someone who had just bought a microscope posted a heap of pictures. Anyone remember that? It was fascinating and educational. I'd love to see someone keep up the tradition.
 
Ok, more pics. This is also from an inexpensive set of 25 pre-prepared slides I bought.

This one is rhizopus sporangia.
It's a fungus that is quite common, might be on that old bread you eat.
I think it is quite beautiful.
 

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2 more pics from pre-prepared slides.
A section of corn stem - which looks fractal to me, and a cross section of spinal chord.
 

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The Sparrow said:
Is anyone finding these interesting? Should I continue?
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Yup can you do cheeses? Or yoghurt? At different stages of maturity (sheep, cow, goat,.... rat,...... human) may be intersesting

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Hungry81 said:
Yup can you do cheeses? Or yoghurt? At different stages of maturity (sheep, cow, goat,.... rat,...... human) may be intersesting

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I shall work on it :)

I know anyone can google this stuff, but actually doing it yourself is cool!
 
The Sparrow said:
Several people now have asked me if I have done sperm.




I haven't.




I might.




I probably won't post it.
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I did it when I was a kid. Not probably a prime candidate for public photography, or perhaps for public anything, but one of those things it seems appropriate to do at least once. But when you've seen one, you've pretty much seen them all.
 
bruto said:
I did it when I was a kid. Not probably a prime candidate for public photography, or perhaps for public anything, but one of those things it seems appropriate to do at least once. But when you've seen one, you've pretty much seen them all.
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Ok, I did it. It was actually kind of moving to see those little dudes swimming around.
I mean, we all know they are there, but actually seeing them kind of blew me away.
Sort of like the first time you see Jupiter with a telescope, it suddenly becomes more real, because you yourself actually saw it.
 
bruto said:
I did it when I was a kid. Not probably a prime candidate for public photography, or perhaps for public anything, but one of those things it seems appropriate to do at least once. But when you've seen one, you've pretty much seen them all.
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Why would sperm not be a candidate for public photography?
 
Blue Bubble said:
'Cos they're nekkid ... they've got no clothes on ! Gotta think of the children :D
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Hypothetically, (Christians look away now) if you got the sperm and you retrieved and isolated the ovum, (say from the mrs monthlys) If you put them together on the slide would there be anything preventing you from observing the fertilisation?

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Hungry81 said:
Hypothetically, (Christians look away now) if you got the sperm and you retrieved and isolated the ovum, (say from the mrs monthlys) If you put them together on the slide would there be anything preventing you from observing the fertilisation?

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I think you could, eggs are huge.
I think the problem is getting/finding one.
 
Difficult shot - 400X magnification handholding camera up to the eyepiece.

Sorry if anyone finds it offensive. It's science.
 

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