A Tele Vue 55mm Plossl in the Celestron C11 optical tube gives 51x, a 0.98 degree true field and a 5.5 mm exit pupil. The worked calculation and whether it sits in the useful range.

Updated 05 September 2026.

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Tele Vue 55mm Plossl in the Celestron C11 optical tube: magnification and field

What the Tele Vue 55mm Plossl does in the Celestron C11 optical tube, worked from the published focal lengths and apparent field.

Field of view

ring = 0.98 degrees true
dot = 5.5 mm exit pupil

Computed optics

Magnification
51x2800 mm / 55 mm
True field
0.98 degrees50 deg / 51x
Exit pupil
5.5 mm280 mm / 51x
Max useful mag
660xpublished
Barrel match
2 in eyepiece in a 2 in focuser
Fits

Good fit. In the Celestron C11 optical tube the Tele Vue 55mm Plossl gives 51x with a 0.98 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: 2800 mm divided by 55 mm is 51x. The true field of view is the eyepiece's 50 degree apparent field divided by that magnification, 0.98 degrees.

The exit pupil, the width of the light beam leaving the eyepiece, is the aperture divided by the magnification, 280 mm over 51x, which is 5.5 mm. That makes this a low-power, wide-field and deep-sky setting.

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Questions and answers

Tele Vue 55mm Plossl in the Celestron C11 optical tube: magnification and field?

Good fit. In the Celestron C11 optical tube the Tele Vue 55mm Plossl gives 51x with a 0.98 degree true field and a 5.5 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.