Keltham has gone ahead and requisitioned a Major Image scroll, now, out of Project funds. There was probably something slightly insane, about how Keltham felt reluctant to do that before the Project had any guaranteed revenue. Just order the spending of 350gp on something, just like that...
Anyways, he has the scroll of Major Image now.
That should be enough to cast the illusion of an overpowered optical microscope.
And then see if Carissa and Avaricia can learn, from seeing Keltham's illusion and knowing the above-quantum classical-surface math of the theory of optics, to cast the Major Image of an optical microscope themselves.