Compound microscope

Explore the four-position objective revolver, damped mechanical focus travel, X/Y specimen carrier and illumination aperture.

01 / Rotating objective nosepiece

Click an objective: the nosepiece rotates in 90° increments to align it over the specimen.

02 / Mechanical coarse & fine focus

Stage height offset+0.00 mm

−8 mm0+8 mm

Spring-damper model: 8 mm bidirectional travel, with inertial response and realistic settling.

03 / Mechanical X-Y carrier

Lateral X position0.0 mm

Longitudinal Y position0.0 mm

04 / Transmitted light

LED drive75%

Condenser iris diameter65%

Optical calculation · illustrative

Total magnification100×

Numerical aperture0.25

Rayleigh resolution1.34 µm

Relative throughput32%

Generic educational instrument, not a replica of a branded microscope. Resolution is calculated for λ = 550 nm. No live microscope image is simulated.