A Tele Vue 5mm Nagler Type 6 in the Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 80AZ gives 180x, a 0.46 degree true field and a 0.4 mm exit pupil. The worked calculation and whether it sits in the useful range.

Updated 05 September 2026.

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Tele Vue 5mm Nagler Type 6 in the Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 80AZ: magnification and field

What the Tele Vue 5mm Nagler Type 6 does in the Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 80AZ, worked from the published focal lengths and apparent field.

Field of view

ring = 0.46 degrees true
dot = 0.4 mm exit pupil

Computed optics

Magnification
180x900 mm / 5 mm
True field
0.46 degrees82 deg / 180x
Exit pupil
0.4 mm80 mm / 180x
Max useful mag
189xpublished
Barrel match
1.25 in eyepiece in a 1.25 in focuser
Fits

Good fit. In the Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 80AZ the Tele Vue 5mm Nagler Type 6 gives 180x with a 0.46 degree true field and a 0.4 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.

Magnification is the telescope focal length divided by the eyepiece focal length: 900 mm divided by 5 mm is 180x. The true field of view is the eyepiece's 82 degree apparent field divided by that magnification, 0.46 degrees.

The exit pupil, the width of the light beam leaving the eyepiece, is the aperture divided by the magnification, 80 mm over 180x, which is 0.4 mm. That makes this a high-power lunar, planetary and double-star setting.

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Questions and answers

Tele Vue 5mm Nagler Type 6 in the Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 80AZ: magnification and field?

Good fit. In the Celestron StarSense Explorer LT 80AZ the Tele Vue 5mm Nagler Type 6 gives 180x with a 0.46 degree true field and a 0.4 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.