A Tele Vue 8mm Delos in the Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 102AZ gives 82x, a 0.87 degree true field and a 1.2 mm exit pupil. The worked calculation and whether it sits in the useful range.

Updated 05 September 2026.

Eyepiece and telescope pairing

Tele Vue 8mm Delos in the Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 102AZ: magnification and field

What the Tele Vue 8mm Delos does in the Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 102AZ, worked from the published focal lengths and apparent field.

Field of view

ring = 0.87 degrees true
dot = 1.2 mm exit pupil

Computed optics

Magnification
82x660 mm / 8 mm
True field
0.87 degrees72 deg / 82x
Exit pupil
1.2 mm102 mm / 82x
Max useful mag
241xpublished
Barrel match
1.25 in eyepiece in a 1.25 in focuser
Fits

Good fit. In the Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 102AZ the Tele Vue 8mm Delos gives 82x with a 0.87 degree true field and a 1.2 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.


Magnification is the telescope focal length divided by the eyepiece focal length: 660 mm divided by 8 mm is 82x. The true field of view is the eyepiece's 72 degree apparent field divided by that magnification, 0.87 degrees.

The exit pupil, the width of the light beam leaving the eyepiece, is the aperture divided by the magnification, 102 mm over 82x, which is 1.2 mm. That makes this a high-power lunar, planetary and double-star setting.

Questions and answers

Tele Vue 8mm Delos in the Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 102AZ: magnification and field?

Good fit. In the Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 102AZ the Tele Vue 8mm Delos gives 82x with a 0.87 degree true field and a 1.2 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.