A Tele Vue 9mm Nagler Type 6 in the Celestron NexStar 4SE gives 147x, a 0.56 degree true field and a 0.7 mm exit pupil. The worked calculation and whether it sits in the useful range.

Updated 05 September 2026.

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Tele Vue 9mm Nagler Type 6 in the Celestron NexStar 4SE: magnification and field

What the Tele Vue 9mm Nagler Type 6 does in the Celestron NexStar 4SE, worked from the published focal lengths and apparent field.

Field of view

ring = 0.56 degrees true
dot = 0.7 mm exit pupil

Computed optics

Magnification
147x1325 mm / 9 mm
True field
0.56 degrees82 deg / 147x
Exit pupil
0.7 mm102 mm / 147x
Max useful mag
241xpublished
Barrel match
1.25 in eyepiece in a 1.25 in focuser
Fits

Good fit. In the Celestron NexStar 4SE the Tele Vue 9mm Nagler Type 6 gives 147x with a 0.56 degree true field and a 0.7 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.

Magnification is the telescope focal length divided by the eyepiece focal length: 1325 mm divided by 9 mm is 147x. The true field of view is the eyepiece's 82 degree apparent field divided by that magnification, 0.56 degrees.

The exit pupil, the width of the light beam leaving the eyepiece, is the aperture divided by the magnification, 102 mm over 147x, which is 0.7 mm. That makes this a high-power lunar, planetary and double-star setting.

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Questions and answers

Tele Vue 9mm Nagler Type 6 in the Celestron NexStar 4SE: magnification and field?

Good fit. In the Celestron NexStar 4SE the Tele Vue 9mm Nagler Type 6 gives 147x with a 0.56 degree true field and a 0.7 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.