Nikon sora

Manuals and user guides

What can it do?

How to switch on

How to switch to superresolution

Dual camera imaging wavelengths

Tips & Tricks

Current status

The current status of the microscope can be found here and on the booking website.

Biosafety and access

The SoRa is located in an ML-1 room. See the Biosafety section on rules regarding working in this room, and how to get access.

Technical specifications

Available hardware

• 20x air obj.
• 40x/1.30 oil (working distance 200 um)
• 100x/1.49 oil (w.d. 160 um)

Superresolution components

• SoRa spinning disc
• Additional SoRa magnifiers 2.8x / 4.0x
• 3D deconvolution software (in-line and parallel)

Imaging lasers

• 405 nm
• 445 nm
• 488 nm
• 561 nm
• 638 nm

Emission filters

• UV
• Green
• Yellow
• Red
• Far-red

Dual color simultaneous imaging

• blue/yellow (e.g. CFP / YFP)
• green/red (e.g. GFP / RFP)

Software

• NIS-elements
• Nikon batch-deconvolution

Other

• FURA (calcium sensor) imaging filters and light source
• "Tokai Hit" Stage-top live-cell incubation system (CO2, temperature and humidity control)