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| How To Figure My Telescopes Power | |||||||||||
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| People are always aking us, "What Power Are You Using." And most of the time I tell them "I don't really know." "Why?" Most of the time while looking at objects we don't really care about power. Well actually that's not right. The lower the power most of the time is a better view in your scope. The higher the power that you use you loose lots of light. And most of the time the objects view and clarity, even with good eyepieces get's worse. And most people that use a telescope only use about 1/4 of the power that their telescope will achive. If you really want to see what the power of a telescope is look at the chart that I have made below and see what I mean. The higher the number, the more power, the smaller the view and the less light that is coming in. |
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| Telescope Power Chart | |||||||||||
| Telescopes Focal Length Eyepiece Power 1200 1000 900 40 30 25 23 32 38 31 28 25 48 40 36 15 80 67 60 10 120 100 90 8 150 125 113 5 240 200 180 4 300 250 225 |
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| You can see by the chart above that the smaller the number on the eyepiece the stronger the power. If you look at your telescopes tube it will usually give you the telescopes Focal Length usually in mm. You take that number and divide it by the eyepeice mm and that gives your the power that your looking at. So by the chart you see that a 1000 mm telescope with a 32mm eyepiece will give you a power of 31x. Still we don't usually talk about power. The only time power is usually involved is if your doing photography. A good friend of mine is really into space photography. If this is what your into go to my clubs web-site and look on the left and look for Astro Photos. Chris has quite a few photos that he has recently shot, they are just like magazine photos. You will find that at www.pasaz.org | |||||||||||