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- Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:34 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Separate Board For "Big Four"?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1269
Separate Board For "Big Four"?
Could we possibly have a separate message board for the big four? It seems like there's a lot of talk about Nikon heads, Olympus objectives, Zeiss illumination and Leica whatever. Could we possibly keep all this in one place? Just means that those of us who have instruments that actually work can di...
- Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:25 pm
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: This is probably a silly question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1855
Re: This is probably a silly question
I take a simpler, pragmatic view. It either works or it doesn't. It's either satisfying and rewarding to the viewer, or it's not. And unless you have a PhD in optical physics, you and we won't understand why. Does that matter? Of course not, because it either works or it doesn't. Just enjoy your mic...
- Fri Aug 12, 2022 7:48 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: ID Help
- Replies: 1
- Views: 827
Re: ID Help
I'd take a stab at a nauplius larva, although the movement doesn't seem quite right.
- Mon Aug 08, 2022 4:01 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Bath Plughole
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1581
- Mon Aug 08, 2022 10:59 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Bath Plughole
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1581
Bath Plughole
Inspired by a recent post by Don Schaeffer, I used an old bass guitar string on which I had bent the machine head end into a narrow hook which I used to unblock my bath plughole. Mrs FBP has long hair, so this is a fairly regular activity. I collected a little of the resulting rotting gunk and this ...
- Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:56 pm
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: What to with Specimens after observing.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2561
Re: What to with Specimens after observing.
I have always returned the sample to the environment from which it came, or if that's impractical, to an environment in which any life in the sample has a chance of survival.
Then I clean and reuse the slide & coverslip.
Then I clean and reuse the slide & coverslip.
- Thu Jul 21, 2022 11:44 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Fern sporangium fluorescence
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1284
Re: Fern sporangium fluorescence
- Thu Jul 21, 2022 11:40 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: The Sport of Microscopy
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2009
Re: The Sport of Microscopy
While I was never chasing moving targets with my telescope, I examine a slide in exactly the same way that I used to scan an area of interest in the sky. I note the coordinates of an interesting object (unless it's cyclops, because they're clearly on meth!), and revisit it. I can easily spend an hou...
- Wed Jul 20, 2022 10:44 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Ostracods everywhere!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 533
Ostracods everywhere!
Just uploaded a few ostracod videos:
- Thu Jul 14, 2022 12:23 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Tardigrade in Cross-Polarized Light
- Replies: 2
- Views: 823
Re: Tardigrade in Cross-Polarized Light
Lovely! Thank you for sharing.
- Wed Jul 13, 2022 8:34 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Ostracods and.... something....
- Replies: 0
- Views: 693
Ostracods and.... something....
I have circled the "somethings" in one of the images. Does anyone have any ideas? Reverse image search returns nothing.
Apologies for the blurry images - just quick frame grabs.
Apologies for the blurry images - just quick frame grabs.
- Sun Jul 03, 2022 2:26 pm
- Forum: About the website, the magazine and this forum
- Topic: Welcome to the new forum!
- Replies: 34
- Views: 226640
Re: Welcome to the new forum!
hi everyone the names Rob, in live in napier New Zealand and im new here. could anyone tell me if there's a manuals download page? im hoping to find a repair manual for a nikon model s-ke with a binocular eyepiece 111511. the whole microscope was badly corroded and seized. i managed to dismantle an...
- Fri Jun 24, 2022 9:43 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Bdarkfield Bdelloid
- Replies: 0
- Views: 726
Bdarkfield Bdelloid
Sorry about the title.... couldn't resist!
Never get tired of watching these critters.
Never get tired of watching these critters.
- Wed Jun 22, 2022 8:10 pm
- Forum: Morphology and Behavior
- Topic: Face Mites
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4107
Face Mites
Sure we all know about these, but interesting little article:
BBC News - The tiny mites that have sex on our faces have a problem
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-61894186
BBC News - The tiny mites that have sex on our faces have a problem
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-61894186
- Wed Jun 22, 2022 11:39 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Daphnia bloom in my pond
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1446
Re: Daphnia bloom in my pond
Excellent video! Thank you for sharing!
- Tue Jun 21, 2022 11:44 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Fern Firing Pollen
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1414
Re: Fern Firing Pollen
Thank you for the information apochronaut. I'm slowly learning about micro-organisms, but as you can likely tell, my knowledge of flora is rather limited!apochronaut wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 8:56 amThese spring loaded reproductive mechanisms are fairly common.....
- Tue Jun 21, 2022 8:13 am
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Nikon SMZ (2?) Collimation problems.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2383
Re: Nikon SMZ (2?) Collimation problems.
This may seem unrelated, but I have successfully collimated a number of Newtownian telescopes, from 6" to 24". In all cases, the plate or clamp(s) holding the primary mirror had pairs of screws for adjustment. I suggest that in your first picture the screw pairs 2/3, 5/6, 7/8 are the equivalent of t...
- Tue Jun 21, 2022 6:06 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Fern Firing Pollen
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1414
Re: Fern Firing Pollen
Thank you MichaelG - beautiful pic. They are amazing structures!
- Mon Jun 20, 2022 9:19 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Insects under UV.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 642
Re: Insects under UV.
Wow! Beautiful images!
- Mon Jun 20, 2022 9:17 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Fern Firing Pollen
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1414
Fern Firing Pollen
I have two common ferns in the garden, Athyrium filix-femina , and on the underside of every leaf there are hundreds (thousands?) of tiny circular lumps. Each lump contains a mass of pods, each held in a curved spring-like structure. Inside each little pod is the pollen. Now, I don't know whether it...
- Sun Jun 19, 2022 4:32 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Testudinella rotifer
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2338
Re: Testudinella rotifer
Beautiful video with wonderful detail!
- Thu Jun 16, 2022 9:29 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Paramecium DF patch and diffuse light
- Replies: 1
- Views: 766
Re: Paramecium DF patch and diffuse light
Beautiful video! Wish I could get 'em to stay that still!
- Wed Jun 15, 2022 5:47 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Flea?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 940
- Wed Jun 15, 2022 8:42 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Flea?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 940
Flea?
Not sure who this fella is, but he's having a bit of a tantrum....
- Mon Jun 13, 2022 7:43 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Rotifers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1550
Re: Rotifers
Wonderful! Finding a lot of these fellas in my bird bath at the moment. Never get tired of watching them!
- Fri Jun 10, 2022 11:58 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Meadow sage under the microscope
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1520
Re: Meadow sage under the microscope
Spectacular! Thank you for sharing.
- Fri Jun 10, 2022 11:52 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: The ciliate fish parasite Trichodina
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1370
Re: The ciliate fish parasite Trichodina
Lovely video & lots of information - thank you!
Is the video slowed down, or 1:1 speed?
Is the video slowed down, or 1:1 speed?
- Wed Jun 08, 2022 5:30 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: New Find
- Replies: 1
- Views: 710
Re: New Find
Water flea - cladocera - of some sort would be my guess.
- Wed Jun 08, 2022 7:25 am
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: A wineglass shaped critter
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1239
Re: A wineglass shaped critter
Edit: I think it's brachionus.
Sure someone who knows what they're talking about will be along shortly....
Sure someone who knows what they're talking about will be along shortly....
- Wed Jun 08, 2022 7:23 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Bdelloid Rotifer
- Replies: 0
- Views: 548
Bdelloid Rotifer
Just a quick one from last night....