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Originally Posted by Ian Cooper
Hi Bojan,
that is an intriguing way of doing it. The frosted screens are just anathema to astrophotography.
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It worked absolutely fine
Here you can see the microscope disassembled - the front lens is objective from 8mm movie camera - reversed of course, and eyepiece is from old broken binos. The magnification is around 50x, so every detail of frosted glass and projected stars are clearly visible.
Prakticas are still available from time to time on ebay.. very under-valued camera here in the west, but very fine quality stuff, absolutely comparable with much more famous brands from those times, me thinks. There was also a magnifying lens (10x) offered by Pentacon but I never found it in the shops, so I decided to build my own.