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Afocal photography of Chromosome in Lily Ovary at 600X

Permanent slide cross section of Lily Ovary.
60X dry Objective x 10X Eyepiece.
Photograph using smart phone at 6 Mega Pixel, resizing and Unsharp mask.

That's a very nice image, and well documented.
Thanks for sharing it.

MichaelG.

cool

Great image! Next-step is the formation of the 'dividing wall'...

Thanks for posting.

John B

Thank you very much for your comment,


MichaelG. , Jonnyvine, and John B.


I have ever try Onion root tips and squash it for wet mount. But I can not find clearly chromosome in the root tip sample. Only saw nucleus of Onion cell. But this prepared slide of Lily Ovary has some chromosome in it.


Suphot

Very nice. Sounds like you enjoy observing plant subjects but be careful or John B. will "Hook" you

I have ever try Onion root tips and squash it for wet mount. But I can not find clearly chromosome in the root tip sample.

I have been unsuccessful as well but I am not giving up.

Good post.

Thank you, suphot for posting these profound examples of: protein motors at play in the important dance of genetic shuffle/ continued organism play in our worlds biosphere! I enjoyed my hand-held camera image captures with microscopes...please tell us...did you 'hand hold' your phone atop your microscope for this profound image-capture? thanks so much, Charlie guevara

Perfect timing!

Thank you very much for your comment,

charlie g and Radazz,

I capture photo by using simple DIY smart phone adapter with small tripod to hold it in place over microscope eyepiece.

You can see the details of DIY smart phone adapter in Microbehunter Magazine Volume 2 Number 11, November 2012. This DIY adapter need small tripod to position smart phone in place, which is a little difficult to use. I plan to make a new adapter to hold smart phone over microscope eyepiece directly. It will be easier to use and faster set up.


Suphot.

Very good result using the equipment mentioned - and a great subject. Thanks!