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After the amazing Artemis II mission, it got me wondering, could I get some moon rock to look at under the microscope? Now, funnily enough I can’t go to NASA and ask for a small amount of lunar material from an Apollo mission, however there are ways to get rock which has come from the moon in the form of ‘lunar meteorites’. A quick search and I tracked down a US meteorite dea...

A vital part of my microscopy work is how best to store my slides to keep them protected and clean for the long term. For details on what I do read the latest my post on my museum website (DiatomImaging.com) where I show the MicroChamber shelf liner from Conservation Resources Ltd (see

Always nice to get an award for my imaging work, especially from such a distinguished organization as the Quekett Microscopical Club. I was awarded the 2025 “Barnard Certificate for Excellence in Photomicrography, Technical Category”, for my image of the diatom Pyrgodiscus armatus from a slide prepared by Michel Haak.

Always fun to report a new article. At the end of last year I was asked to write a piece on the use of oblique lighting for the Postal Microscopical Society (an amazing group established in 1873). It was recently published in their journal, Balsam Post.

Oblique lighting helps to provide a more ‘3D’ appearance to microscope images, and can be very useful when looking...