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relet @[email protected] · 2026-04-23 · 17:55 UTC

I may have gone slightly overboard with the #focusstacking, but it worked. Improved the lighting a bit, and returned the #frankenscope to the photo tent. Still more to be done. The long legs made me miss a few corners, so in the end that's ~250 stacks with a total of ~50000 captures, all for one #gnat. Might be a #mycomya from the antenna colours, tiger stripes and wing veination?

Unfortunately, the usually excellent book delivery service for the public libraries went bankrupt, so I cannot just order keys from the universities. Might be I will find a key online. As usual, I'd be happy for any id help, as far as that is possible from the pictures.

https://setzkasten.relet.net/#?Mycetophilidae

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/351543549

#diptera #mycetophilidae #inaturalist #norway #wildlife #entomology #setzkasten

#focusstacking #frankenscope #gnat #mycomya #diptera #mycetophilidae

relet @[email protected] · 2026-04-23 · 17:55 UTC

I may have gone slightly overboard with the #focusstacking, but it worked. Improved the lighting a bit, and returned the #frankenscope to the photo tent. Still more to be done. The long legs made me miss a few corners, so in the end that's ~250 stacks with a total of ~50000 captures, all for one #gnat. Might be a #mycomya from the antenna colours, tiger stripes and wing veination?

Unfortunately, the usually excellent book delivery service for the public libraries went bankrupt, so I cannot just order keys from the universities. Might be I will find a key online. As usual, I'd be happy for any id help, as far as that is possible from the pictures.

https://setzkasten.relet.net/#?Mycetophilidae

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/351543549

#diptera #mycetophilidae #inaturalist #norway #wildlife #entomology #setzkasten

#focusstacking #frankenscope #gnat #mycomya #diptera #mycetophilidae

relet @[email protected] · 2026-04-23 · 17:55 UTC

I may have gone slightly overboard with the #focusstacking, but it worked. Improved the lighting a bit, and returned the #frankenscope to the photo tent. Still more to be done. The long legs made me miss a few corners, so in the end that's ~250 stacks with a total of ~50000 captures, all for one #gnat. Might be a #mycomya from the antenna colours, tiger stripes and wing veination?

Unfortunately, the usually excellent book delivery service for the public libraries went bankrupt, so I cannot just order keys from the universities. Might be I will find a key online. As usual, I'd be happy for any id help, as far as that is possible from the pictures.

https://setzkasten.relet.net/#?Mycetophilidae

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/351543549

#diptera #mycetophilidae #inaturalist #norway #wildlife #entomology #setzkasten

#setzkasten #entomology #wildlife #norway #inaturalist #mycetophilidae

relet @[email protected] · 2026-04-23 · 17:55 UTC

I may have gone slightly overboard with the #focusstacking, but it worked. Improved the lighting a bit, and returned the #frankenscope to the photo tent. Still more to be done. The long legs made me miss a few corners, so in the end that's ~250 stacks with a total of ~50000 captures, all for one #gnat. Might be a #mycomya from the antenna colours, tiger stripes and wing veination?

Unfortunately, the usually excellent book delivery service for the public libraries went bankrupt, so I cannot just order keys from the universities. Might be I will find a key online. As usual, I'd be happy for any id help, as far as that is possible from the pictures.

https://setzkasten.relet.net/#?Mycetophilidae

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/351543549

#diptera #mycetophilidae #inaturalist #norway #wildlife #entomology #setzkasten

#focusstacking #frankenscope #gnat #mycomya #diptera #mycetophilidae

relet @[email protected] · 2026-03-21 · 22:53 UTC

CW: insect, magnified

This is why I love #focusstacking. Look at the wrinkles on the neck of that gnat. The hairy compound eyes. The little grey ocellus(?) Next to it. Anyone good with gnat anatomy? #setzkasten

I think I fixed the focus runoff issues on the #frankenscope, and if nothing else interrupts the current run, that's a 12x16 grid being captured in 130 layers at 80x magnification.

#focusstacking #setzkasten #frankenscope

relet @[email protected] · 2026-03-21 · 22:53 UTC

CW: insect, magnified

This is why I love #focusstacking. Look at the wrinkles on the neck of that gnat. The hairy compound eyes. The little grey ocellus(?) Next to it. Anyone good with gnat anatomy? #setzkasten

I think I fixed the focus runoff issues on the #frankenscope, and if nothing else interrupts the current run, that's a 12x16 grid being captured in 130 layers at 80x magnification.

#focusstacking #setzkasten #frankenscope

relet @[email protected] · 2026-03-21 · 22:53 UTC

CW: insect, magnified

This is why I love #focusstacking. Look at the wrinkles on the neck of that gnat. The hairy compound eyes. The little grey ocellus(?) Next to it. Anyone good with gnat anatomy? #setzkasten

I think I fixed the focus runoff issues on the #frankenscope, and if nothing else interrupts the current run, that's a 12x16 grid being captured in 130 layers at 80x magnification.

#frankenscope #setzkasten #focusstacking

relet @[email protected] · 2026-03-21 · 22:53 UTC

CW: insect, magnified

This is why I love #focusstacking. Look at the wrinkles on the neck of that gnat. The hairy compound eyes. The little grey ocellus(?) Next to it. Anyone good with gnat anatomy? #setzkasten

I think I fixed the focus runoff issues on the #frankenscope, and if nothing else interrupts the current run, that's a 12x16 grid being captured in 130 layers at 80x magnification.

#focusstacking #setzkasten #frankenscope