Okay kiddo, have you ever tried to play with a toy from far away and your hands couldn't reach it so you had to guess where it was? Well, sometimes when scientists use a special machine called a microscope to look at very small things, they also have to guess where the tiny thing is. This is because sometimes the light that is used to make the tiny thing visible gets bent, like when you see something through water.
This bending of the light is called Abbe Error, named after a man named Ernst Abbe who studied it a long time ago. Abbe Error makes it hard for scientists to see exactly where the tiny thing is because it looks like it's in a different place than it really is.
To make sure the scientists can see the tiny thing in the right place, they use some special tricks called corrections. These corrections use a bunch of math and science to help scientists adjust the light so that it doesn't get bent as much. This way, the scientists can see the tiny thing more clearly and know exactly where it is.
So, Abbe Error is like when you have to guess where something is, but scientists use special tricks like corrections so they can see tiny things more clearly.