Tele Vue 15mm Plossl: 15 mm focal length, 50 degree apparent field, 1.25 in barrel. The magnification and true field it produces in real telescopes, worked from the specs.

Updated 05 September 2026.

Optical reference

Tele Vue 15mm Plossl: focal length, field and the magnification it gives

What the Tele Vue 15mm Plossl 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
15 mm
Apparent field of view
50 degrees
Barrel size
1.25 in
Optical design
4-element Plossl

An eyepiece has no magnification of its own. The Tele Vue 15mm Plossl gives 43x in a 650 mm scope, 80x in a 1200 mm scope, 135x in a 2032 mm scope, because magnification is the telescope's focal length divided by this eyepiece's 15 mm focal length.

Its 50 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 15 mm focal length divided by the telescope's focal ratio, so at f/5 the exit pupil is 3 mm and at f/10 it is 1.5 mm.

The 1.25 in barrel decides which focusers it fits: a 1.25 in barrel fits both dedicated 1.25 in focusers and the 1.25 in adapter of a 2 in focuser.

Questions and answers

What is the focal length of the Tele Vue 15mm Plossl?

15 mm

What is the apparent field of view of the Tele Vue 15mm Plossl?

50 degrees

What is the barrel size of the Tele Vue 15mm Plossl?

1.25 in

What is the optical design of the Tele Vue 15mm Plossl?

4-element Plossl