A Tele Vue 4.5mm Delos in the Sky-Watcher Heritage 130P gives 144x, a 0.5 degree true field and a 0.9 mm exit pupil. The worked calculation and whether it sits in the useful range.

Updated 05 September 2026.

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Tele Vue 4.5mm Delos in the Sky-Watcher Heritage 130P: magnification and field

What the Tele Vue 4.5mm Delos does in the Sky-Watcher Heritage 130P, worked from the published focal lengths and apparent field.

Field of view

ring = 0.5 degrees true
dot = 0.9 mm exit pupil

Computed optics

Magnification
144x650 mm / 4.5 mm
True field
0.5 degrees72 deg / 144x
Exit pupil
0.9 mm130 mm / 144x
Max useful mag
about 260x2x aperture
Barrel match
1.25 in eyepiece in a 1.25 in focuser
Fits

Good fit. In the Sky-Watcher Heritage 130P the Tele Vue 4.5mm Delos gives 144x with a 0.5 degree true field and a 0.9 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.

Magnification is the telescope focal length divided by the eyepiece focal length: 650 mm divided by 4.5 mm is 144x. The true field of view is the eyepiece's 72 degree apparent field divided by that magnification, 0.5 degrees.

The exit pupil, the width of the light beam leaving the eyepiece, is the aperture divided by the magnification, 130 mm over 144x, which is 0.9 mm. That makes this a high-power lunar, planetary and double-star setting.

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Questions and answers

Tele Vue 4.5mm Delos in the Sky-Watcher Heritage 130P: magnification and field?

Good fit. In the Sky-Watcher Heritage 130P the Tele Vue 4.5mm Delos gives 144x with a 0.5 degree true field and a 0.9 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.