A Tele Vue 15mm Plossl in the Sky-Watcher Skymax 150 gives 120x, a 0.42 degree true field and a 1.2 mm exit pupil. The worked calculation and whether it sits in the useful range.

Updated 05 September 2026.

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Tele Vue 15mm Plossl in the Sky-Watcher Skymax 150: magnification and field

What the Tele Vue 15mm Plossl does in the Sky-Watcher Skymax 150, worked from the published focal lengths and apparent field.

Field of view

ring = 0.42 degrees true
dot = 1.2 mm exit pupil

Computed optics

Magnification
120x1800 mm / 15 mm
True field
0.42 degrees50 deg / 120x
Exit pupil
1.2 mm150 mm / 120x
Max useful mag
about 300x2x aperture
Barrel match
1.25 in eyepiece in a 2 in focuser
Fits

Good fit. In the Sky-Watcher Skymax 150 the Tele Vue 15mm Plossl gives 120x with a 0.42 degree true field and a 1.2 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.

Magnification is the telescope focal length divided by the eyepiece focal length: 1800 mm divided by 15 mm is 120x. The true field of view is the eyepiece's 50 degree apparent field divided by that magnification, 0.42 degrees.

The exit pupil, the width of the light beam leaving the eyepiece, is the aperture divided by the magnification, 150 mm over 120x, which is 1.2 mm. That makes this a high-power lunar, planetary and double-star setting.

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Questions and answers

Tele Vue 15mm Plossl in the Sky-Watcher Skymax 150: magnification and field?

Good fit. In the Sky-Watcher Skymax 150 the Tele Vue 15mm Plossl gives 120x with a 0.42 degree true field and a 1.2 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.