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The image formed by an objective of a compound microscope is real and enlarged. A compound microscope is a high power microscope that uses a compound lens system. A compound microscope has multiple lenses: the objective lens is compounded by the eyepiece lens to obtain a high magnification of 40x, 100x, 400x and 1000x. Higher magnification is achieved by using two lenses rather than just a single magnifying lens.