American Optical Series H20
This microscope was made in mid-1970s, but it is still in a great shape and delivers
very nice pictures. You can find a manual for the AO-20 here.
Steve Neeley has collected a vast amount of information about American Optical and Spencer microscopes
on his excellent website.
I sold the AO-20 microscope in 2004.
This microscope is equipped as follows:
- objectives (all infinity corrected) mounted in a quadruple nosepiece:
- 4x plan achromatic objective, N.A. 0.12
- 10x achromatic objective, N.A. 0.25
- 45x achromatic objective, N.A. 0.66
- 50x oil immersion plan achromatic objective, N.A. 0.80
- 100x oil immersion achromatic objective, N.A. 1.25
- 10x dark contrast phase achromatic objective, N.A. 0.25
- 20x dark contrast phase plan achromatic objective, N.A. 0.50
- 45x dark contrast phase achromatic objective, N.A. 0.66
- dual binocular body with 10x wide field eyepieces and green arrow pointer
- 12V 100W halogen light source with centerable field diaphragm and condenser focusing controls
- Abbe condenser N.A. 1.25 with aperture diaphragm, on focusable rack and pinion mount
- aplanatic-achromatic turret phase condenser N.A. 0.90 with four phase annuli
- darkfield bispheric condenser
- rotatable polarizer attachment and analyzer unit with 3-position turret
- two built-in 5-position filter turrets
- graduated mechanical stage
- coarse and fine focusing knobs with "auto focus" feature
- ExpoStar automatic camera controller with shutter attachment, 35 mm film back, and
3 1/4" x 4 1/4" Polaroid back
- 10x field of view focusing eyepiece
- filar micrometer
- epi-fluorescence attachment with three excitation filters, three dichroic mirrors
and three barrier filters
- viewing screen
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