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These were between 40x and 100x and I'm using my phone to get the pictures so I slightly edited them to make it more similar to how they looked through the microscope.

The last picture is my favorite the little white particle looks like a planet floating in space.

I'm definitely going to look at some more mushroom gills it was very easy to peel one off and put a cover on it. I don't have a way to permanently mount it so it's just sitting in water and I don't think it's going to last but if it doesn't at least the mold will look cool.

1-3 is moss 4-6 is a maple leaf and 7-8 is a mushroom 9 is salt and 10 is a Zea seed. Most of the pictures were taken at 40x. 11-14 are pictures I edited to bring out some more details and 14 is just soap I decided to look at while I was cleaning the slides.

I was able to make a darkfield filter for it and it was easier than I thought so I'm pretty happy about that. I haven't seen any microbes yet so collecting some pond water is next on my list.

The first piece is definitely my favorite. I only got one good picture of the bug but from my very quick Google search I think it's an oribatid mite? I tried to get more pictures of it but I was using my phone to get the pictures so I couldn't keep everything lined up but I still think it turned out cool.