Philippe's Telescope / Detector Calculator        
Red Light: 630 nm
Input Parameters:   Green Light: 550 nm
Derived Parameters:   Blue Light: 480 nm
1. TELESCOPE Type: Astro-Physics 155 f/7 EDFS
Aperture (Diameter) D = 155,00 millimeters
Focal Length F = 1.085,00 millimeters
Aperture D = 6,10 " inches
Focal Ratio N = 7,00
Maximum magnification = 310,00 X
Eye-piece for max. magnification: 3,50 mm millimeters
Light Power:    
Calculations based on a 7 mm pupil size and 6th magnitude for the naked eye   
Gain = 490,31 X
Faintest Star (visually) = 12,73 m magnitude
Faintest Star (photographically) = 14,73 m magnitude
Barlows:     Effective F (mm) Focal Ratio N
Reducer 0,75X 0,75 X 814 5,3
Barlow 2X 2,00 X 2.170 14,0
Eye-pieces: Magnification Exit Magnification Magnification
Eye-piece focal lengths in millimeters: without barlow: Pupil: with Barlow 1: with Barlow 2:
4,8 226 0,69 170 452
7,0 155 1,00 116 310
9,0 121 1,29 90 241
13,0 83 1,86 63 167
17,0 64 2,43 48 128
20,0 54 2,86 41 109
25,0 43 3,57 33 87
27,0 40 3,86 30 80
58,0 19 8,29 14 37
Size of the Airy Disk:      
Linear diameter of the disk out to the first dark diffraction ring    
Red Light: 2,05 " arc seconds
Green Light: 1,79 " arc seconds
Blue Light: 1,56 " arc seconds
Full-Width at Half-Maximum (FWHM) of the Airy Disk:     Size of the Airy  
50 % of all incoming light is concentrated in this central core     Disk at focal plane Resolution
is a realistic measure for the smallest detail in an astronomical image   in µm in lpm
Red Light: 0,86 " arc seconds 4,50 222
Green Light: 0,75 " arc seconds 3,93 255
Blue Light: 0,65 " arc seconds 3,43 292
Rayleigh's resolution limit       Resolution    
resolution: the center of one Airy Disk is just one radius away of the other one   comparisons:    
Green Light: 0,89 " arc seconds Cassini Division 0,50 "
Dawes's resolution limit       Encke Division 0.0n "
resolution: empirical method based on the separation of binary stars     Rille in Alpine Valley 0,27 "
Green Light: 0,75 " arc seconds    
Optimistic Sparrow's resolution limit            
resolution: 2 PSFs (Point Spread Function) are separated by 1/2 radius of the airy disk  
Green Light: 0,45 " arc seconds
2. DETECTOR Type: CANON EOS-1D Mark II
Width:   28,70 millimeters
    3.504,00 pixels
Height:   19,10 millimeters
    2.336,00 pixels
Number of Pixels: 8.185.344 pixels
Diagonal: 34,47 mm millimeters
Magnification factor: 1,25 X 1 pixel = … km
Pixel Heigth: 8,19 µm micrometers Comparison Objects Size   Width Height Barlow 1 Barlow 2
Pixel Width: 8,18 µm micrometers Moon/Sun 31,4 ' 34,5 51,9 1531 574
Field of View (FOV) of the detector on this telescope:     Jupiter 40 " 0,7 1,1    
Width: 90,94 ' minutes of arc Mars 25 " 0,5 0,7    
Height: 60,52 ' minutes of arc Saturnus 20 " 0,4 0,6    
Resolution:   M51 11 ' 12,1 18,2    
Resolution in height: 122,30 lpm lines per mm M13 17 ' 18,7 28,1    
Resolution in width: 122,09 lpm lines per mm in % in %
Angular Size of a Pixel: Zonder Barlow     Reducer 0,75X Barlow 2X    
Width: 1,55 " per pixel 2,07 0,78 " per pixel
Height: 1,56 " per pixel 2,08 0,78 " per pixel
Rescalings:     Scale:    
2336 2,34 " per pixel 66,67% 3,11 1,17 " per pixel
1752 3,11 " per pixel 50,00% 4,15 1,56 " per pixel
1168 4,67 " per pixel 33,33% 6,23 2,34 " per pixel
Maximum focal ratio to obtain diffraction limited images:    
When the seeing is perfect !      
Red Light: 25,49 Barlow: 3,64 X
Green Light: 29,20 Barlow: 4,17 X
Blue Light: 33,46 Barlow: 4,78 X
Average: 4,20 X
Depth of focus (DOF):      
this tells you how accurately you must be able to focus the detector to have a sharp field
Geometrical DOF: 0,134 mm millimeters
Diffraction DOF: 0,108 mm millimeters
DOF: 0,134 mm millimeters
Diffraction limited images (DLI)      
 
P = chance to obtain a diffraction limited image
  FWHM = long exposure image width  
 
Example r0 in mm P  (in %) 1 DLI per Resolution FWHM   W H
       … images in " in "   pixels pixels
  20,00 0,04862 2.057 6,90 5,56 3,6 3,6
Typical Seeing 25,00 1,40893 71 5,52 4,45   2,9 2,9
Typical Seeing 30,00 8,77241 11 4,60 3,71   2,4 2,4
  40,00 54,05510 2 3,45 2,78   1,8 1,8
  50,00 125,41896 1 2,76 2,22   1,4 1,4
  60,00 198,11656 1 2,30 1,85   1,2 1,2
  70,00 261,00254 1 1,97 1,59   1,0 1,0
  80,00 312,14055 1 1,73 1,39   0,9 0,9
  90,00 352,87818 1 1,53 1,24 0,8 0,8
  100,00 385,24039 1 1,38 1,11 0,7 0,7
WHT 4.2m (La Palma) 150,00 474,22590 1 0,92 0,74 0,5 0,5
ESO 3.6m EFOSC2 200,00 510,00446 1 0,69 0,56 0,4 0,4
ESO (Paranal Site) 300,00 537,20165 1 0,46 0,37 0,2 0,2
  400,00 547,05944 1 0,35 0,28 0,2 0,2
Eyepiece Projection Photography      
 
 
   
   
A The amplification factor also called magnification factor.
S The distance from the eyepiece to the film plane or CCD chip.
F2 The focal length of the eyepiece, i.e. 20 mm 
F total Effective focal length for the whole system including primary of the telescope.
F1 The focal length of telescope itself. 
f The effective focal ratio of the whole system, i.e. f/20 
D The diameter of the primary objective or mirror of the telescope, i.e. 200 mm or 8 inch 
Distance eyepiece - detector S: 100 100 100 100 mm
Focal length of the eyepiece F2: 4,8 7,0 9,0 13,0 mm
Magnification A = 19,83 13,29 10,11 6,69 X
Effective focal length F total =  21.519 14.415 10.971 7.261 mm
Effective focal ratio f = 139 93 71 47
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