A Tele Vue 17mm Ethos in the Sky-Watcher Flextube 300P (12-inch Dobsonian) gives 88x, a 1.13 degree true field and a 3.5 mm exit pupil. The worked calculation and whether it sits in the useful range.

Updated 05 September 2026.

Eyepiece and telescope pairing

Tele Vue 17mm Ethos in the Sky-Watcher Flextube 300P (12-inch Dobsonian): magnification and field

What the Tele Vue 17mm Ethos does in the Sky-Watcher Flextube 300P (12-inch Dobsonian), worked from the published focal lengths and apparent field.

Field of view

ring = 1.13 degrees true
dot = 3.5 mm exit pupil

Computed optics

Magnification
88x1500 mm / 17 mm
True field
1.13 degrees100 deg / 88x
Exit pupil
3.5 mm305 mm / 88x
Max useful mag
about 610x2x aperture
Barrel match
2 in eyepiece in a 2 in focuser
Fits

Good fit. In the Sky-Watcher Flextube 300P (12-inch Dobsonian) the Tele Vue 17mm Ethos gives 88x with a 1.13 degree true field and a 3.5 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.

Magnification is the telescope focal length divided by the eyepiece focal length: 1500 mm divided by 17 mm is 88x. The true field of view is the eyepiece's 100 degree apparent field divided by that magnification, 1.13 degrees.

The exit pupil, the width of the light beam leaving the eyepiece, is the aperture divided by the magnification, 305 mm over 88x, which is 3.5 mm. That makes this a medium-power general setting.

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Questions and answers

Tele Vue 17mm Ethos in the Sky-Watcher Flextube 300P (12-inch Dobsonian): magnification and field?

Good fit. In the Sky-Watcher Flextube 300P (12-inch Dobsonian) the Tele Vue 17mm Ethos gives 88x with a 1.13 degree true field and a 3.5 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.