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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Calaverite, Cripple Creek Colorado, USA FOV: 16mm

Strunzite, Raritan, NJ FOV: 1.6 mm Mag: 45x


The process is:
 - Capture series of photos (8 to 15+ images) where the focal point is shifted just slightly with Amscope software.

 - Load images into Affinity Photo and perform a focus merged, color balance and export as JPEG or PNG image.

 - Load exported image into GIMP and tweak contract/brightness/colors to match physical specimen.

Monday, June 29, 2020

Crystal Cave, South Bass Island, Ohio - world's largest celestite geode

 

On a recent family outing, I finally visited Crystal Cave on South Bass Island.

Crystal Cave website.

Atlas Obscura Crystal Cave - This article details the history of the cave.

Miller's ferry service to South Bass Island.

Friday, February 14, 2020

Monday, January 27, 2020

Fluorapatite, Dan Patch Mine, Keystone, South Dakota, USA

Goethite ps after Siderite, Dan Patch Mine, Keystone, SD FOV: 10mm

Trying something new (for me) mixing social media. I like blogger for actual blog posts but the UI has stagnated so I am attempting to use Pinterest to host my images for this blog.

Monday, January 13, 2020

More new mineral images

More microscope images....

Scorodite and parmacosiderite





parmacosiderite




 Smithsonite
 pyrite on stilbite

 Strengite

 Pharmacosiderite
 Strengite
 Anatase






Turquoise + other copper salts 
 Scorodite and parmacosiderite
 Scorodite 
 Scorodite and parmacosiderite



 Scorodite 
 Strunzite + rockbridgeite

 parmacosiderite

Saturday, January 11, 2020

More mineral photos

More mineral photos.  I adjusted the position of my digital camera which greatly improved the quality of the photos.


Pharmacosiderite, Richmond Sitting Bull mine, Galena SD. FOV: 0.5mm
Pharmacosiderite, Richmond Sitting Bull mine, Galena SD. FOV: 0.5mm


Pharmacosiderite, Richmond Sitting Bull mine, Galena SD. FOV: 0.5mm 


Cornetite, Nevada

Wurtzite, western Pennsylvania.

My new microscope and digial camera rig.

I bought myself nice starter AMScope stereo microscope with continuous zoom 20x to 90x.
The digital camera is Celestron 5MP  USB camera.  I added a adjustable level LED light ring to complete my digital microscope rig.


This is first 'real' microscope I've purchased capable of capturing digital images.  I own about small Celestron handheld digital microscopes which were cheap and fun to play with.  

Here is the first batch of images I've taken with my AMScope microscope.  Field of View (FOV) various between 0.25 mm to 0.5 mm in these images.  Here is nice article on how to calculate field of view from from Sciencing.com

Mixite Gold Hill Mine, Toole, UT,USA


 Wurtzite, Germany


 Cuprite var chalcotrichite Ajo. AZ, USA


Cornetite, Nevada, USA



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