DMT microscopy

[fink]

Recently picked up a pretty sweet microscope. Give me patience as I am learning on the fly. First thing to look at was obviously some spice. Thought some might enjoy a peek.

1. DMT xtal 1000x back lit
2. Impure xtal 400x
3. Mullein enhanced leaf 200x

 

[Toshido]

That last one is awesome.

 

[Fridge]

Look at these gems !

Thank you for sharing fink. I think I need to get myself a microscope too.

Edit: The last one reminds me of neural networks.

 

[null24]

That last one weirds me out. Nice.

 

[ZiPhi]

Wow..those are amazing. Thanks for sharing!

Agreed with Widderic - that last one is pure gold.

 

[Muskogee Herbman]

that is amazing

 

[fink]

Forgot to say, the last one from original post is mullein enhanced leaf at 200x magnification.

This crystal here is once re-exed and seems quite pure. I think was 400x but actual forgot to make a note. First top lit then back lit

Then after that we have some goo left after an evap. The round artifacts are air bubbles. But seems there are some crystal like structures as well as some plant type shapes within the goo.


Learnt how to take slightly better photos but forgive me the resolution as I am only using a mobile phone.

 

[Voidmatrix]

This was so awesome while I was on mushrooms yesterday :lol:

One love

 

[fink]

This was so awesome while I was on mushrooms yesterday :lol:

One love

Glad to be of service. Here to follow is the complete enhanced mullein set at
200-400-1000x

 

[starway7]

Very Nice photos!:thumb_up:

might i ask ..just how do you take a photo of a microscope image??

Do you just ..adjust the microscope..then hold a camera above the microscope lense?
if so... your hand would have to be very steady . to get that sharp of an image!

Or does the microscope have a built in camera?

 

[downwardsfromzero]

Forgot to say, the last one from original post is mullein enhanced leaf at 200x magnification.

That was my suspicion entirely, having thought, "There's no way that's crystals - it must be plant material!"

Nice work, it's great fun to have a microscope to play with.


Mine still needs a replacement part for the stage - the partial Geneva mechanism has a snapped tooth. And my USB microscope isn't talking to my computer any more either. Maybe the inspiration from your pictures here will help get this sorted

starway7 - reading through the thread, it seems these were taken using a phone held up to the eyepiece. Resting on the eyepiece is sufficient to get stability for a reasonably good image. Indeed, this is what I also do with my telescope.

 

[L-dreamer]

What's the microscope model? price point?

 

[fink]

Hey Starway, just as DFZ says, holding a phone to the eye piece is sufficient with a bit of practice. It's also easy to find a multitude of jigs for making this easier.

Is the Geneva mechanism for the aperture under the tray that lets in back light DFZ? Or worse, the rotary platform that the objective lenses sit in?

Hey L-dreamer. We got one from a company called Bnise at a cost of £120. I believe I saw the same one the other day for 20% less than that even. See photo below.

Would be great if anyone wants to add more photos or has any advise on improving. One thing that seems difficult is getting a good focus on a 3d object. You can either squash things down between two bits of glass, destroying delicate structure. Or you have to accept that half the image will be out of focus.

 

[downwardsfromzero]

3D objects are best rendered by stacking multiple images taken through a succession of focal planes. That would require a fixed mount for the camera for best results.

The Geneva is the means by which my device moves the stage up and down and in turn focuses the instrument. It may have a more correct technical name but the essence of it is a partial Geneva mechanism, with the unusual feature that power is transferred from linear motion of a pin, through both sets of forks to another linearly-moving pin, rather than a rotating cam pin moving the Geneva stepwise through its rotation.

 

[fink]

Ah that is pretty critical then. I'm now determined to learn a out this image stacking, thank you for the info.

This is a tiny flake of peppermint with a strongly concentrated coating of magic

 

[Koduckushi]

Wow, that's cool to see it like this. Is it just me, or do some of these pictures look kind of like neurons?

 

[compulsimple]

This is extremely cool to me, thank you for sharing! I'm just saying you should also share any other awesome microscopy that you might have! I like that you also have photos of both crystals and enhanced leaf. If you or others have any microscopy pictures, please share them if the thread can go a little out of scope of DMT crystal microscopy, I'd like to see them honestly and I've always really wanted to get a microscope because of how cool it would be to me (being generally a person whose into and fascinated with science) to look at any microscopy because its uber cool, so very! Beyond curiosity and interest it serves super useful in mycology in terms of looking closely at those spores which is pretty vital for accurate IDing. I'm actually assuming now that I think about it that you might be into mycology with psilocybin containing species?

Thanks again for the photos! I will be subscribing to the thread to learn more about microscopy myself and hopefully it'll blow up with lots of awesome things. Other molecules and substances would be cool.

Side note though and it's out of.... scope ... :lol: :d but there's a video game called Everything and you can pretty much play as... well, everything. You can zoom down into being anything from an amoeba to an atom. You can also be an animal, tree, rock, san pedro cactus, cloud, land formation galaxy formation, planet, star, etcetera. You can also form a herd/group and dance using the dance button. You collect and discover a whole bunch of lectures from Alan Watts as a collectible while exploring plus you can read procedurally generated and random thoughts And the animation of some of the animals is high camp because the dev team had to cut some corners to get the large list of things you can play as so like you'll find a lion doesn't have a walking animation it just rotates the game object of the lion. I think while its cutting corners they manage to make it add to be an entertaining feature and gave me a chuckle personally. It also has a dancing button, I mentioned that but it needs to be mentioned twice.

 

[benzyme]

Swift stereo microscope, 18x. 365 nm led flashlight

 

[fink]

That is a standard for me to aim for there benzyme, thank you. Really beautiful clarity. If you have any tips, or of course more photos, please do share them.

Hey Koduckushi, it is interesting how neurons seem to have a structure that is repeated so often in nature. If you google 'millenium simulation' you can see how even the universe seems to being made of a neural network type structure.

Compulsimple, get a microscope and show us your findings!

 

[benzyme]

I just used the classic nexus method, slow roomtemp precip from VM&P naphtha.