Guy took Jupiter photo with Game Boy Camera, giant telescope, publishes tutorial

https://www.engadget.com/2211886/guy-who-took-photo-of-jupiter-with-a-game-boy-camera-and-giant-telescope-publishes-diy-tutorial/

by thunderbong • 12 days ago

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canthonytucci• 12 days ago

Can I see the picture of Jupiter though? Seems like one of the 2 pictures this article would need

mmmlinux• 12 days ago

Yeah, surprising all this effort and no clean copy of the picture to be easily found. Pretty easy to get them off the GB camera now days.

greatgib• 10 days ago

Probably because it is a kind of autogenerated article betting it all on the clickbait title to generate ad dollars.

wxw2• 10 days ago

Here's a link to the actual photo. https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2026/06/09-Jupiter.jpg

[replaced a Threads link for a better one]

zx80802• 10 days ago

"Get the full app experience"

F%%k the closed web.

wxw2• 10 days ago

Ah yea, I shouldn't have linked to Threads (it was just the first result I found to see the full photo). I replaced the link with a better one.

voidUpdate3• 10 days ago

That's... honestly kinda underwhelming. You can't even see any stripes, it's just a vague blob. I guess the contrast was just too much for the Gameboy camera?

hadlock• 10 days ago

It means a lot more if you held one of these in your hands new before you were old enough to drive

(or, in my case, read about it in nintendo power, but only saw it behind the glass case at Target)

al_borland• 10 days ago

Thank you. From the posted article, it took me to a YouTube video, which mentioned a Popular Science article[0], which I found looking at the history in BlueSky… yet none of that had the actual photo. After all that running around, it’s quite underwhelming. I suppose the headline and the process is better/more interesting than the picture, and they knew it.

[0] https://www.popsci.com/science/game-boy-camera-jupiter/

Calvin02• 10 days ago

Not to diminish his accomplishment, he attached the game boy camera to a 60inch telescope at Mount Wilson. This is a cool project but the quality of the photo is what you’d expect from a gameboy camera.

The headline seems to imply that he custom built a telescope for his gameboy.

zx80802• 10 days ago

Where is the photo?

WalterGR• 10 days ago

Read the other comments and you’ll find the answer you’re looking for.

RagnarD• 10 days ago

Would have been far more interesting to have an iPhone adapter, another very common device but with a worthwhile image sensor better justifying time on a massive telescope.

archi42• 10 days ago

It's a 100" telescope... from 1917. To summarize Wikipedia for you (my words, not a genai): While it was used by famous people like Hubble it isn't used for scientific work anymore. Some adaptics optics stuff happened in the 1990s, but I suppose that was just to test the system on a telescope that wasn't in active use anymore. In 2014 it "began its new life as the world's largest telescope dedicated to public use".

So I'd say it's a good use as any ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Wilson_Observatory#100-i...

HelloUsername• 10 days ago

Related: "2bit Astrophotography with the Game Boy Camera" 04-jul-2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14697456 55 comments

voidUpdate3• 10 days ago

Having the colour of your links be very close to the default colour of links you've already clicked is an interesting style choice

realaccfromPL2• 10 days ago

Just name the "guy" in the title, how hard is that? I hate this so much. Idea and execution is so rad, just credit him properly, Engadget pls...

realaccfromPL2• 10 days ago

Musician and retro tech fan Chris Graue

jagged-chisel• 10 days ago

There's a headline character count budget!

Sharlin• 10 days ago

Blogspam article with more ads than content.

mikedd• 10 days ago

This is why the internet was born.

ErroneousBosh• 10 days ago

This is definitely news for hackers.

stdatomic• 10 days ago

I don't know why I was expecting to be amazed by the photo.

Guy took Jupiter photo with Game Boy Camera, giant telescope, publishes tutorial

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