Morocco Fezouata Sponges Revisited

[pleecan (Peter Lee)]

Hi Joe:
Reimaging Fezouata sponges with new designed and built equipment. Scale 1 division = 10 microns


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[pleecan (Peter Lee)]

33 frame composite Helicon Focus 16x Zeiss Jena Apo Objective, Pentax K01. Scale 1 division = 10 microns

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[Joe Botting]

Amazing images, Peter - it's great to see such sharpness at this magnification. As far as the structures go, though, I think a lot of it is a very faint tectonic fabric rather than spicules... but that's only from a quick look.

[pleecan (Peter Lee)]

Thanks for commenting Joe! I start up my imaging machine on the sponges PL

[pleecan (Peter Lee)]

I also now have variable polarized light imaging with a 5 micron resolution based
on a calibrated slide. PL