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Hello. I have taken some images of species from a pond water sample and I have seen some things I can't identify. First some round/oval-shaped figures that I think are either some kind of eggs or pollen, then irregular-shaped cells I believe, and finally what may be a ciliate (I don't know much else...

Location will help, but my guess would be a Linden. Any flowers, pods, seeds, fruit? Images of the bark and/or whole tree may also help. That is however, a tad larger than the typical specimens examined here. :P Linden looks pretty similar, but I think this tree is slightly bigger and the tree top ...

The tree is quite big, maybe up to eight meters, here's a same type of tree from Google Earth.

I am going to make slides with different leaves, and I do not know what tree this one comes from. It looks like a birch leave. Can anyone help?

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The smallest bacteria are about 500 - 200 nm, the ebola virus is 600 - 1400 nm . Could it be seen with a light microscope? If so, at what magnitude? If not, other bacteria would be too small for the light microscope, wouldn't they?

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Scarodactyl wrote: ↑

Wed May 06, 2020 5:40 pm

Just from a very broad perspective, you can make your own slides but you can't make your own camera.

I only mentioned that because it would take me time to prepare 100 slides that last about 2 years each. So I guess the camera is a better choice.

Thank you!

DonSchaeffer wrote: ↑

Tue May 05, 2020 11:56 pm

1. Interior cells
2. Surface cells
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Cool images! Was the strawberry in decomposition?

Hello! I would like to get something else for my microscope, and I found a pack of 100 different slides for 30€ on Amazon and a microscopy-astronomy camera for 70€ on another website called astroshop. What do you think I should get? Camera: https://www.astroshop.es/cmos/bresser-microcular-camara-de-...

c-krebs wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 28, 2020 11:08 pm

Looks like they could be fungal spores. Search for "Xylomyces", look at the images and see what you think. (might be another genus but I do think they are fungal spores).

Thank you!

Found out a way to post them here!

They are mostly in groups and they don't move. I viewed some moss under the microscope and they were everywhere, maybe some kind of "spore-deliverer"?

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Hello! I took some images of some microorganisms a few days ago. They're dark brown, compact and seem to be divided in segments (that's why I think they may be some kind of annelids, although there are some small rotifers). Can anyone help me identify these creatures? Images are too big, sorry about...

Greta images! Very useful.

Thank you very much!

Hello! I've left 4 glasses of water on the balcony for about a month and a half, and two of them have turned orangish-red. I saw a video on YouTube by Journey to the Microcosmos that in spring there are microorganisms called Synura that turn the water orange. When I looked at it with my microscope I...

Cool image! I like that red pigment it has.

I have been in some forums about imaging, and a cool thing they have is a gallery for each user. What about doing it here?

Aha! It's a rudimentary hand-section cutter - for soft stems of small diameter. Push a small soft stem piece through one of the holes, from below. Set it to just be sticking up above the hole's side by about 1mm then turn the blade-holding part to cut a section. Place under your 'scope - in a drop ...

Complete beginner here. This came with my microscope and I don't know what it is. The top part rotates and seems to have a thin layer of something.

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Hello! I have just bought a microscope because I'm very interested in this. I will be posting my best photos and videos (they won't be good quality ) on YouTube. I've also got a lot of questions...