olie
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Just got a new microscope, pretty happy with it. ~$265 on Amazon, if anyone's interested.
I've looked at a few tutorials, and a couple of threads here on HBT, so I think I have the gist of it. I haven't set up to count, yet -- these are just 1st-time pix so that I can verify that I'm able to see and identify what I'm looking at.
So that's what this post is about: am I correctly identifying what I'm seeing, here?
For example, here, I think I've got a lot of good yeast cells, and some kind of bacteria. (#2 is closeup of the suspected bacteria).
Below, a few more pictures of things I suspect are bacteria among the otherwise nice field of good, viable cells (and a fair bit of trub for on a couple of them). In particular, I'm interested in the 3rd one down -- where the "bacteria" looks a bit like a teeny-tiny whale. Is that perhaps trub?
The slide is dyed, and what I think I have here is lots & lots of viable cells with a handful of stray dead ones, right?
Lastly, I think I've interrupted my yeast mid mitosis; is that what I'm seeing, here?
Thanks a ton for your help! Looking forward to getting good at this and begin making starters and start re-using yeast -- woot-woot!
I've looked at a few tutorials, and a couple of threads here on HBT, so I think I have the gist of it. I haven't set up to count, yet -- these are just 1st-time pix so that I can verify that I'm able to see and identify what I'm looking at.
So that's what this post is about: am I correctly identifying what I'm seeing, here?
For example, here, I think I've got a lot of good yeast cells, and some kind of bacteria. (#2 is closeup of the suspected bacteria).
Below, a few more pictures of things I suspect are bacteria among the otherwise nice field of good, viable cells (and a fair bit of trub for on a couple of them). In particular, I'm interested in the 3rd one down -- where the "bacteria" looks a bit like a teeny-tiny whale. Is that perhaps trub?
The slide is dyed, and what I think I have here is lots & lots of viable cells with a handful of stray dead ones, right?
Lastly, I think I've interrupted my yeast mid mitosis; is that what I'm seeing, here?
Thanks a ton for your help! Looking forward to getting good at this and begin making starters and start re-using yeast -- woot-woot!