Mahanu

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Under the Microscope

the small world, catalogued

Document and learn from our own microscope images — catalogue them, identify what's in them, and build the understanding to read the small world with a real eye.

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Image catalogue

One row per slide. The catalogue is only as good as its honesty: magnification recorded every time (it's the difference between "big" and "small" meaning anything), and IDs marked confirmed or unconfirmed — never a guess dressed as a fact.

# Subject Source Mag Date ID confidence Image Learned
001 onion epidermis kitchen onion, thin peel 100× 2026-07-21 confirmed — the brick-wall cell pattern; the nucleus shows with a drop of iodine

Capture habit (decide once, keep forever)

  • Lighting: same setup each time, so images are comparable
  • Scale: a reference in frame where possible (a known object, or note the objective) — magnification means nothing without it
  • Filenames: NNN — subject — mag — date (matches the catalogue #)

Starter subjects (obvious → outward)

  • Onion epidermis — the classic first slide
  • Pond water — a whole zoo at 400×; the ID adventure starts here
  • A human hair vs. a pet hair — the difference is visible and surprising
  • Salt vs. sugar crystals — geometry you can see
  • A leaf's underside — stomata, if the magnification reaches

Unconfirmed — the quest list

  • (anything moving in the pond water that we can't name yet — a photo and a question, not a guess)