A Tele Vue 20mm Plossl in the Celestron C9.25 optical tube gives 118x, a 0.43 degree true field and a 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 20mm Plossl in the Celestron C9.25 optical tube: magnification and field

What the Tele Vue 20mm Plossl does in the Celestron C9.25 optical tube, worked from the published focal lengths and apparent field.

Field of view

ring = 0.43 degrees true
dot = 2 mm exit pupil

Computed optics

Magnification
118x2350 mm / 20 mm
True field
0.43 degrees50 deg / 118x
Exit pupil
2 mm235 mm / 118x
Max useful mag
555xpublished
Barrel match
1.25 in eyepiece in a 2 in focuser
Fits

Good fit. In the Celestron C9.25 optical tube the Tele Vue 20mm Plossl gives 118x with a 0.43 degree true field and a 2 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.

Magnification is the telescope focal length divided by the eyepiece focal length: 2350 mm divided by 20 mm is 118x. The true field of view is the eyepiece's 50 degree apparent field divided by that magnification, 0.43 degrees.

The exit pupil, the width of the light beam leaving the eyepiece, is the aperture divided by the magnification, 235 mm over 118x, which is 2 mm. That makes this a medium-power general setting.

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Questions and answers

Tele Vue 20mm Plossl in the Celestron C9.25 optical tube: magnification and field?

Good fit. In the Celestron C9.25 optical tube the Tele Vue 20mm Plossl gives 118x with a 0.43 degree true field and a 2 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.