Interphase.
Onion root tips are extremely popular for viewing the different phases of mitosis because the chromosomes are large and and very dark when stained. The images shown here were taken using a regular light microscope with an oil immersion lens at 1000X.
Note that the actual magnification of the image will depend on the size of your monitor. The real size of a typical onion root tip cell is about .075mm(75 micrometers).
The two cells at the left are in interphase.
The material inside the nucleus is largely chromatin(C) which consists
of the chromosomes stretched out so that individual chromosomes are not
visible. The dark structure(I) represents the nucleolus. Interphase cells
typically have one or more nucleoli.
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The cell to the left of the arrow is a cell in early to mid prophase. Observe the condensing chromosomes(dark regions).
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Metaphase
This
a very nice metaphase cell. Observe the chromosomes(Ch) at the equator
of the spindle. The spindle(S) is highly visible. especially on the lower
half of the cell.
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The
cell to the left is a nice mid anaphase. If you closely compare the chromosomes
with the metaphase cell, you can tell that the chromosomes are now unduplicated.
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Telophase
and Cytokinesis 
The
arrow is pointing to the spindle of this telophase cell. Also, there is
a faint cell plate that may not show up on all monitors. In plant cells
cytokinesis involves the formation of a cell plate. This is the start
of the cell wall that will eventually divide the two new cells.
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Late Telophase.
This
image shows a late telophase cell near the left hand side of the image.
Note that the cell plate goes almost all the way across the original cell.
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