Sugar Crystal Formation under the Microscope
I recently bought a new microscope - a Celestron CB2000C compound microscope - and I'm absolutely loving it!
I wanted to create a timelapse of sugar crystals forming. I created a saturated solution with granulated sugar by adding sugar to a small cup of boiling water until no more sugar would dissolve, then allowed it to cool.
Once cooled, I added a few drops of the solution onto a microscope slide, waited until I could see the start of some crystal formation then left my camera running all night, taking a photo every minute. My intervalometer will only allow 399 images to be taken so the first part of this video is a 6 hour 40 minute long timelapse which was running from 23:30 BST on Saturday 4th July. The camera stopped taking photos at 06:23 BST but I took some more photos at 10:00 BST which I've included in the middle section of the video. I then left the slide for a couple of days until all of the water had evaporated, leaving behind some absolutely stunning structures. The final part of this video is a recording of me scanning around the slide to show you some of those structures.
The clarity of this microscope is absolutely stunning and I'm so in love with it even though I haven't had much time to play with it yet. So, look out for more microscopy content as I learn my away around this amazing instrument!
Photos taken with a Canon 1100D attached to the microscope using a T-ring and 20mm extension tube which slots straight into the third port on the microscope. I used the 4x objective on the microscope. The timelapse part was created using PIPP then the whole video was edited and spliced together using Movie Maker 10.
Music: "The Ants Built a City on his Chest" by Doctor Turtle - from the built-in royalty free music library on Movie Maker 10.
Sugar Crystal Formation under the Microscope
I recently bought a new microscope - a Celestron CB2000C compound microscope - and I'm absolutely loving it!
I wanted to create a timelapse of sugar crystals forming. I created a saturated solution with granulated sugar by adding sugar to a small cup of boiling water until no more sugar would dissolve, then allowed it to cool.
Once cooled, I added a few drops of the solution onto a microscope slide, waited until I could see the start of some crystal formation then left my camera running all night, taking a photo every minute. My intervalometer will only allow 399 images to be taken so the first part of this video is a 6 hour 40 minute long timelapse which was running from 23:30 BST on Saturday 4th July. The camera stopped taking photos at 06:23 BST but I took some more photos at 10:00 BST which I've included in the middle section of the video. I then left the slide for a couple of days until all of the water had evaporated, leaving behind some absolutely stunning structures. The final part of this video is a recording of me scanning around the slide to show you some of those structures.
The clarity of this microscope is absolutely stunning and I'm so in love with it even though I haven't had much time to play with it yet. So, look out for more microscopy content as I learn my away around this amazing instrument!
Photos taken with a Canon 1100D attached to the microscope using a T-ring and 20mm extension tube which slots straight into the third port on the microscope. I used the 4x objective on the microscope. The timelapse part was created using PIPP then the whole video was edited and spliced together using Movie Maker 10.
Music: "The Ants Built a City on his Chest" by Doctor Turtle - from the built-in royalty free music library on Movie Maker 10.