A Tele Vue 7mm Nagler Type 6 in the Sky-Watcher Skymax 127 gives 220x, a 0.37 degree true field and a 0.6 mm exit pupil. The worked calculation and whether it sits in the useful range.

Updated 05 September 2026.

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Tele Vue 7mm Nagler Type 6 in the Sky-Watcher Skymax 127: magnification and field

What the Tele Vue 7mm Nagler Type 6 does in the Sky-Watcher Skymax 127, worked from the published focal lengths and apparent field.

Field of view

ring = 0.37 degrees true
dot = 0.6 mm exit pupil

Computed optics

Magnification
220x1540 mm / 7 mm
True field
0.37 degrees82 deg / 220x
Exit pupil
0.6 mm127 mm / 220x
Max useful mag
about 254x2x aperture
Barrel match
1.25 in eyepiece in a 2 in focuser
Fits

Good fit. In the Sky-Watcher Skymax 127 the Tele Vue 7mm Nagler Type 6 gives 220x with a 0.37 degree true field and a 0.6 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.

Magnification is the telescope focal length divided by the eyepiece focal length: 1540 mm divided by 7 mm is 220x. The true field of view is the eyepiece's 82 degree apparent field divided by that magnification, 0.37 degrees.

The exit pupil, the width of the light beam leaving the eyepiece, is the aperture divided by the magnification, 127 mm over 220x, which is 0.6 mm. That makes this a high-power lunar, planetary and double-star setting.

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Questions and answers

Tele Vue 7mm Nagler Type 6 in the Sky-Watcher Skymax 127: magnification and field?

Good fit. In the Sky-Watcher Skymax 127 the Tele Vue 7mm Nagler Type 6 gives 220x with a 0.37 degree true field and a 0.6 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.