Tele Vue 27mm Panoptic: 27 mm focal length, 68 degree apparent field, 2 in barrel. The magnification and true field it produces in real telescopes, worked from the specs.

Updated 05 September 2026.

Optical reference

Tele Vue 27mm Panoptic: focal length, field and the magnification it gives

What the Tele Vue 27mm Panoptic measures and the magnification and true field it produces once you drop it into a telescope of a given focal length.

Published specifications

Focal length
27 mm
Apparent field of view
68 degrees
Barrel size
2 in
Eye relief
19 mm
Optical design
6-element Panoptic

An eyepiece has no magnification of its own. The Tele Vue 27mm Panoptic gives 24x in a 650 mm scope, 44x in a 1200 mm scope, 75x in a 2032 mm scope, because magnification is the telescope's focal length divided by this eyepiece's 27 mm focal length.

Its 68 degree apparent field becomes the true field of view once divided by that magnification: wider in a short-focal-length scope, narrower in a long one. The exit pupil equals this 27 mm focal length divided by the telescope's focal ratio, so at f/5 the exit pupil is 5.4 mm and at f/10 it is 2.7 mm.

The 2 in barrel decides which focusers it fits: a 2 in barrel needs a 2 in focuser or diagonal and will not drop into a 1.25 in one.

Questions and answers

What is the focal length of the Tele Vue 27mm Panoptic?

27 mm

What is the apparent field of view of the Tele Vue 27mm Panoptic?

68 degrees

What is the barrel size of the Tele Vue 27mm Panoptic?

2 in

What is the eye relief of the Tele Vue 27mm Panoptic?

19 mm