Eyepiece and telescope pairing
Tele Vue 6mm Ethos in the Orion SkyQuest XT8 Classic Dobsonian: magnification and field
What the Tele Vue 6mm Ethos does in the Orion SkyQuest XT8 Classic Dobsonian, worked from the published focal lengths and apparent field.
Field of view
ring = 0.5 degrees true
dot = 1 mm exit pupil
- Magnification
- 200x1200 mm / 6 mm
- True field
- 0.5 degrees100 deg / 200x
- Exit pupil
- 1 mm203 mm / 200x
- Max useful mag
- about 406x2x aperture
Computed optics
- Barrel match
- 1.25 in eyepiece in a 2 in focuser
Good fit. In the Orion SkyQuest XT8 Classic Dobsonian the Tele Vue 6mm Ethos gives 200x with a 0.5 degree true field and a 1 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.
Magnification is the telescope focal length divided by the eyepiece focal length: 1200 mm divided by 6 mm is 200x. The true field of view is the eyepiece's 100 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, 203 mm over 200x, which is 1 mm. That makes this a high-power lunar, planetary and double-star setting.
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