Home / Guides / Vixen (telescopes): telescope brand overview

Vixen (telescopes): telescope brand overview

Vixen is a Japanese company that makes telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes and accessories for their products.

Who Vixen (telescopes) is

Vixen is a Japanese company that makes telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes and accessories for their products.

It is one of the makers whose telescopes amateur astronomers meet most often, so understanding its ranges helps when you are choosing a scope or fitting accessories to one you already own.

What they are known for

Vixen is a Japanese maker known for its refractors and reflectors, the SD and AX apochromats, and above all for the Vixen-style dovetail bar, the narrow mounting standard used across much of the industry.

Ranges from a single maker often span several optical designs and both beginner and premium tiers, so two telescopes wearing the same badge can behave very differently. The important numbers for choosing an eyepiece are always the telescope's own aperture, focal length and focuser size, not the brand on the tube.

Fitting eyepieces and accessories to a Vixen (telescopes) telescope

Whatever telescope you own from this maker, the eyepiece maths is the same: magnification is the telescope's focal length divided by the eyepiece's focal length, and the true field of view is the eyepiece's apparent field divided by that magnification. Confirm your own model's focal length and focuser barrel size, since a range can span several designs and both 1.25 inch and 2 inch fittings.

A longer focal-length scope reaches high power with ordinary eyepieces, while a short fast scope needs shorter eyepieces for the same magnification and rewards better-corrected glass. Use the Fit My Telescope tool with your exact focal length to get the magnification, true field and exit pupil for any eyepiece pairing before you buy.

Related

Sources: Vixen (telescopes) (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA) · Wikidata (CC0)