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Chain forming diatoms

A chain of diatoms from pond water a small lake North of South Bend, IN. The horizontal length of the chain is about 100 micron.

 

Photographed using a Sony NEX 5N with a Bausch & Lomb bright field microscope setup for Kohler illumination. The camera was mounted to a Leica MIKAS microscope adapter with a 2/3X reducer, 43X objective and a 10X eyepiece.

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Uploaded on September 9, 2012
Taken on September 8, 2012