Eyepiece and telescope pairing
Celestron X-Cel LX 25mm in the Celestron StarSense Explorer 8-inch Dobsonian: magnification and field
What the Celestron X-Cel LX 25mm does in the Celestron StarSense Explorer 8-inch Dobsonian, worked from the published focal lengths and apparent field.
Field of view
ring = 1.25 degrees true
dot = 4.2 mm exit pupil
- Magnification
- 48x1200 mm / 25 mm
- True field
- 1.25 degrees60 deg / 48x
- Exit pupil
- 4.2 mm203 mm / 48x
- Max useful mag
- 480xpublished
Computed optics
- Barrel match
- 1.25 in eyepiece in a 2 in focuser
Good fit. In the Celestron StarSense Explorer 8-inch Dobsonian the Celestron X-Cel LX 25mm gives 48x with a 1.25 degree true field and a 4.2 mm exit pupil, inside the telescope's useful range.
Magnification is the telescope focal length divided by the eyepiece focal length: 1200 mm divided by 25 mm is 48x. The true field of view is the eyepiece's 60 degree apparent field divided by that magnification, 1.25 degrees.
The exit pupil, the width of the light beam leaving the eyepiece, is the aperture divided by the magnification, 203 mm over 48x, which is 4.2 mm. That makes this a low-power, wide-field and deep-sky setting.
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