MICROSCOPE APPARATUS AND PROGRAM

Provided are a microscope apparatus capable of executing auto-focus control that appropriately follows a high-speed scan in a case of capturing a high-magnification and wide view image of an observation target contained in a container having large variations in the bottom surface, and a program. In a case where a microscope apparatus main body scans the bottom surface of the cultivation container by synchronously controlling a piezoelectric element and an actuator serving as optical axis-directional transport devices having different properties from each other, an objective lens of the imaging optical system is transported to a focus position in the optical axis direction.