430 is the max magnification u can get.

Low Power Objective (10x) The low power objective lens has more magnification power than the scanning objective lens, and it is one of the most helpful lenses when it comes to observing and analyzing glass slide samples.

400x

So a 10x objective plus a 10x eyepiece = 100x magnification. And a 100x objective lens with 20x eyepieces = 2,000x magnification – right?

• 30 things you can see with a 2500x microscope. by Kimberly Beckett.
• Bacteria cells. Close up view of light blue pen shine round zoom lens pointed at bacteria cells.
• Nematodes. Nematodes can be observed under a 2500x microscope.
• Nail fungus.
• Fungi Cells.
• Water Beetle.
• Old plantar warts.
• Cancer cell.

At 40x magnification you will be able to see 5mm. At 100x magnification you will be able to see 2mm. At 400x magnification you will be able to see 0.45mm, or 450 microns. At 1000x magnification you will be able to see 0.180mm, or 180 microns.

400x magnification

1000X magnification

About magnification: Most educational-quality microscopes have a 10x (10-power magnification) eyepiece and three objectives of 4x, 10x and 40x to provide magnification levels of 40x, 100x and 400x. Magnification of 400x is the minimum needed for studying cells and cell structure.

40X

Standard light microscopes allow us to see our cells clearly. However, these microscopes are limited by light itself as they cannot show anything smaller than half the wavelength of visible light – and viruses are much smaller than this. But we can use microscopes to see the damage viruses do to our cells.

1200X is, actually, about the upper practical limit in magnification by an ordinary light microscope. In fact you can see some bacteria clearly at 100X. Bacteria and their more ancient cousins, the Archaea, come in all shapes and sizes.

Given that DNA molecules are found inside the cells, they are too small to be seen with the naked eye. While it is possible to see the nucleus (containing DNA) using a light microscope, DNA strands/threads can only be viewed using microscopes that allow for higher resolution.

compound light microscope

At 30x magnification on a scanning electron microscope (left), individual hairs can be distinguished, and at 600x (right), you can see differences in the length and shape of individual hairs.

It is difficult to differentiate the four lines drawn within a 250 nm. Below this line lies the realm which is invisible to human naked eye: 200-250 nm approximately. The resolution of the light microscope cannot be small than the half of the wavelength of the visible light, which is 0.4-0.7 µm.

100x – This is a great all around view of Jupiter, as you can see cloud detail on the planet, and see all four moons all in the same FOV. The Great Red Spot can also start being seen as well as a tiny orange colored dot on the planet (if it’s on the side facing Earth).

So small you cannot see something a nanometer in size unless you use very powerful microscopes like atomic force microscopes. A nanometer is used to measure things that are very small. Atoms and molecules, the smallest pieces of everything around us, are measured in nanometers.

The smallest thing that we can see with a ‘light’ microscope is about 500 nanometers. A nanometer is one-billionth (that’s 1,000,000,000th) of a meter. So the smallest thing that you can see with a light microscope is about 200 times smaller than the width of a hair. Bacteria are about 1000 nanometers in size.

In fact, even the most powerful light-focusing microscopes can’t visualise single atoms. What makes an object visible is the way it deflects visible light waves. Atoms are so much smaller than the wavelength of visible light that the two don’t really interact. To put it another way, atoms are invisible to light itself.

Light microscopes let us look at objects as long as a millimetre (10-3 m) and as small as 0.2 micrometres (0.2 thousands of a millimetre or 2 x 10-7 m), whereas the most powerful electron microscopes allow us to see objects as small as an atom (about one ten-millionth of a millimetre or 1 angstrom or 10-10 m).

With light microscopy, one cannot visualize directly structures such as cell membranes, ribosomes, filaments, and small granules and vesicles. Using an appropriate staining technique, however, makes aggregates of these smaller structures or the regions they occupy visible by light microscopy.

The smallest object which an average human can see with the naked eye close up is one tenth of a millimetre diameter 0.1mm. This is the ability of being able to see what colour it is, whether it is dust, sand, or a tiny full stop.

Protons and neutrons can be further broken down: they’re both made up of things called “quarks.” As far as we can tell, quarks can’t be broken down into smaller components, making them the smallest things we know of.

If so, one day, perhaps with the Hadron Collider, we will see the size of the smallest objects. But theoretical physicists prefer the idea that the particles are not in fact round, but tiny “strings”, like bits of elastic. They have a finite length, but an infinitely small width.

of light

The biggest supercluster known in the universe is the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall. It was first reported in 2013 and has been studied several times. It’s so big that light takes about 10 billion years to move across the structure. For perspective, the universe is only 13.8 billion years old.