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Compound lens from unknown source as Focal Reducer.

All images are with a Toucam 740K, and a Celestron C8.
.Here is a cropped image of a back of a playing card at Prime Focus (f10) at a distance of ~10meters.
The lens assembly that I'm using as a focal reducer has a one lens that is smaller than the other.  Depending on which way I place the lens, I get two different focal reductions.  Here is an image of the same card above with the smaller lens facing the OTA.  This gives about an f5.
With the larger lens facing the OTA, I get this image.  Looks like about an f2.5.
Here is a composite image to show the reductions I'm getting with this lens assembly.