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Olympus BX51 Upright Microscope Stand with Nikon DS-Fi3 sCMOS camera 

Upright widefield microscope with halogen lightsource and sCMOS camera. Suited for imaging fixed fluorescent samples.

Features Include:

  • Manual X-Y-Z stage
  • Brightfield, phase-contrast and darkfield
  • Fluorescence
  • Colour Camera

Transmitted Light:  Olympus 100W Halogen Lamp

Reflected Light:  Nikon Intensilight 130W Halogen White Lightsource

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Condensor:

Name N.A. W.D. mm Position 1 Position 2 Position 3 Position 4 Position 5
Universal LWD 0.45 54 Open Ph1 Ph2 Ph3 empty

Objectives:

Position Objective Magnification N.A. Immersion W.D. (mm) Type Type Thread
1 U Plan FL 4x 0.13 Dry 17 PhL - M23
2 U Plan FL N 10x 0.3 Dry 10 Ph1 - M23
3 LUC Plan FL N 20x 0.45 Dry 6.6 Ph1 - M23
4 U Plan S Apochromat 40x 0.95 Dry 0.18 - - M23
5 U Plan S Apochromat 60x 1.35 Oil 0.15 - - M23
6 U Plan S Apochromat 100x 1.4 Oil 0.13 - - M23

Fluorescent Filter Sets:

Position Name Excitation Dichroic Emission Suitable Dyes
1 DAPI - U-MNUA2 365/10 400LP 440/40 DAPI, Hoechst
2 GFP-4050B 466/40 495LP 525/50 EGFP, Alexa Fluor 488
3 mCherry-40LP-A 562/40 593LP 593LP

mCherry, Alexa Fluor 568

4 CFP-2432C 438/24 458LP 483/32 ECFP, mCerulean
5 YFP-2427B 535/30 550LP 570/30 EYFP, mVenus
6 Empty - - - Brightfield

Computer:

Dell PC - 3GHz Xeon Processor - 8GB RAM - 256GB nVidia Quadro GPU

1TB Raid Array

42" LCD Monitor

Software: 

NIS Elements F

Contacts

Dr James Springfield
Microscopy Facility Manager​
  +61 7 334 62390
  j.springfield@imb.uq.edu.au


Dr Nicholas Condon
CZI Imaging Scientist
  +61 7 334 62042
  n.condon@imb.uq.edu.au

 

Dr Mahdie Mollazade
Microscopy Officer
  +61 7 334 62042
  m.mollazade@uq.edu.au

 

Mailing address

Advanced Microscopy Facility
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
Level 6N, 306 Carmody Road,
Building 80
University of Queensland
4072, St Lucia,
Queensland, Australia