Related: "2bit Astrophotography with the Game Boy Camera" 04-jul-2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14697456 55 comments
Guy took Jupiter photo with Game Boy Camera, giant telescope, publishes tutorial
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#12Having the colour of your links be very close to the default colour of links you've already clicked is an interesting style choice
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#13Here'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]
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?
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#14Just 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...
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#15Just 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...
Musician and retro tech fan Chris Graue
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#16Blogspam article with more ads than content.
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#17This is why the internet was born.
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#18This is why the internet was born.
This is definitely news for hackers.
Re: Guy took Jupiter photo with Game Boy Camera, giant telescope, publishes tutorial
#19Here'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]
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?
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)
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
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)
I've used a gameboy camera recently. It took some lovely pictures once it was adjusted properly. I just suspect that there might have been problems with dynamic range etc that made it particularly difficult to take a picture of jupiter?