Eyepiece and telescope pairing
Tele Vue 32mm Plossl in the Sky-Watcher Evostar 100ED: magnification and field
What the Tele Vue 32mm Plossl does in the Sky-Watcher Evostar 100ED, worked from the published focal lengths and apparent field.
Field of view
ring = 1.78 degrees true
dot = 3.6 mm exit pupil
- Magnification
- 28x900 mm / 32 mm
- True field
- 1.78 degrees50 deg / 28x
- Exit pupil
- 3.6 mm100 mm / 28x
- Max useful mag
- 236xpublished
Computed optics
- Barrel match
- 1.25 in eyepiece in a 2 in focuser
Good fit. In the Sky-Watcher Evostar 100ED the Tele Vue 32mm Plossl gives 28x with a 1.78 degree true field and a 3.6 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.
Magnification is the telescope focal length divided by the eyepiece focal length: 900 mm divided by 32 mm is 28x. The true field of view is the eyepiece's 50 degree apparent field divided by that magnification, 1.78 degrees.
The exit pupil, the width of the light beam leaving the eyepiece, is the aperture divided by the magnification, 100 mm over 28x, which is 3.6 mm. That makes this a medium-power general setting.
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