A Tele Vue 55mm Plossl in the Celestron C14 optical tube gives 71x, a 0.7 degree true field and a 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 C14 optical tube: magnification and field

What the Tele Vue 55mm Plossl does in the Celestron C14 optical tube, worked from the published focal lengths and apparent field.

Field of view

ring = 0.7 degrees true
dot = 5 mm exit pupil

Computed optics

Magnification
71x3910 mm / 55 mm
True field
0.7 degrees50 deg / 71x
Exit pupil
5 mm356 mm / 71x
Max useful mag
840xpublished
Barrel match
2 in eyepiece in a 2 in focuser
Fits

Good fit. In the Celestron C14 optical tube the Tele Vue 55mm Plossl gives 71x with a 0.7 degree true field and a 5 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.

Magnification is the telescope focal length divided by the eyepiece focal length: 3910 mm divided by 55 mm is 71x. The true field of view is the eyepiece's 50 degree apparent field divided by that magnification, 0.7 degrees.

The exit pupil, the width of the light beam leaving the eyepiece, is the aperture divided by the magnification, 356 mm over 71x, which is 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 C14 optical tube: magnification and field?

Good fit. In the Celestron C14 optical tube the Tele Vue 55mm Plossl gives 71x with a 0.7 degree true field and a 5 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.