Olympus BX60 upright fluorescence microscope is a good tool for brightfield and fluorescence imaging. It is equipped with a cooled DP71 digital camera which is suitable for both fluorescence and colour imaging (Bayer colour filter). The microscope has 4x, 10x, 20x, 40x and 100x objectives. Fluorescence filters include DAPI, FITC and rhodamine.

    Reservation System: Olympus BX60

    Location: BioCity, 4th floor, room 4086

    4x Olympus Plan
    • Numerical Aperture: 0.1
    • Working Distance: 18.5 mm
    • Immersion: Without immersion

    10x Olympus U-Plan FL
    • Numerical Aperture: 0.25
    • Working Distance: 10 mm
    • Immersion: Without immersion
    • Phase contrast

    20x Olympus U-Plan FL
    • Numerical Aperture: 0.5
    • Working Distance: 2.1 mm
    • Immersion: Without immersion
    • Phase contrast

    40x Olympus U-Plan FL
    • Numerical Aperture: 0.75
    • Working Distance: 0.51 mm
    • Immersion: Without immersion
    • Phase contrast

    100x Olympus U-Plan Apochromat
    • Numerical Aperture: 1.35
    • Working Distance: 0.17 mm
    • Immersion: Oil

    Fluorescence light is generated by a Olympus U-RFL-T mercury burner.

    DAPI - Olympus U-MWU
    Excitation: BP 357/55nm
    Emission: LP 420nm

    GFP narrow - Olympus U-MNIBA2
    Excitation: BP 480/20nm
    Emission: BP 530/40nm
    Alexa 546 - Olympus U-MWIG
    Excitation: BP 535/30nm
    Emission: LP 580nm

    GFP wide - Olympus U-MWIB
    Excitation: BP 475/30nm
    Emission: LP 515nm

    Olympus DP71 CCD
    4080 x 3072 pixels

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