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Tele Vue 41mm Panoptic in the Sky-Watcher Evostar 80ED: magnification and field
What the Tele Vue 41mm Panoptic does in the Sky-Watcher Evostar 80ED, worked from the published focal lengths and apparent field.
Field of view
ring = 4.65 degrees true
dot = 5.5 mm exit pupil
- Magnification
- 15x600 mm / 41 mm
- True field
- 4.65 degrees68 deg / 15x
- Exit pupil
- 5.5 mm80 mm / 15x
- Max useful mag
- 189xpublished
Computed optics
- Barrel match
- 2 in eyepiece in a 2 in focuser
Good fit. In the Sky-Watcher Evostar 80ED the Tele Vue 41mm Panoptic gives 15x with a 4.65 degree true field and a 5.5 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.
Magnification is the telescope focal length divided by the eyepiece focal length: 600 mm divided by 41 mm is 15x. The true field of view is the eyepiece's 68 degree apparent field divided by that magnification, 4.65 degrees.
The exit pupil, the width of the light beam leaving the eyepiece, is the aperture divided by the magnification, 80 mm over 15x, which is 5.5 mm. That makes this a low-power, wide-field and deep-sky setting.
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