Day 1 with the foldscope

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Exploring the Microcosm #LGP26-B3 Day 1 At the first seminar lecture of the course “Exploring the Microcosm”, we observed Fern Rhizomes under the foldscope, having made various observations under different lenses which are 50x, 140x and 340x. While initially it turned out difficult to get clear pictures of the images, it turned out to be extremely fun moving forward. Using the foldscope for the first time was indeed enriching.
We started off observing Fern Rhizomes. We observed it using three distinct lenses, 50x, 140x and 340x and different images/observations could be made.
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The above is Fern Rhizome at 340x magnification, and some trivial and clear observations can be made. We can observe the cell walls and also the nucleus of the cell. The cells are in a hexagonal shape.
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The above is Fern Rhizome at 140x magnification, and again we can make some distinct observations and at the same time make distinctions between the 340x magnification image. We can observe the pink-ish hexagonal structures of the cell image we observed in the 340x magnification, with other distinct components of the cells which were previously not visible.
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The above is Fern Rhizome at 50x magnification, and again we can see visible differences between this picture and previous ones under lenses of different magnifications. Although some parts of this turned out to be blurry, we can still make our interpretations.
All of these observations were made under a pre-stained glass slide which was stained by Fern Rhizome.

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