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

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

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Post by sublinear »

hadlock wrote: post #19
voidUpdate wrote: post #13

Earlier 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)

Sorry, but I had a game boy camera in 1998 and it was underwhelming back then too. I was in the third grade.

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

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Post by jdiff »

sublinear wrote: post #21
hadlock wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Sorry, but I had a game boy camera in 1998 and it was underwhelming back then too. I was in the third grade.

Yes, the lack of whelm in all cases is what makes it impressive that it worked at all in this case.

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

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Post by archi42 »

RagnarD wrote: post #9

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.

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...

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

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Post by HPsquared »

gus_massa wrote: post #27
amelius wrote: post #25

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Do you have a blog post about it? It may be an interesting DIY post in HN in spite it may seem trivial to you. (Remember to include a few photos.)

Indeed, content performance is more important than camera performance here.

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

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Post by greatgib »

mmmlinux wrote: post #3
canthonytucci wrote: post #2

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

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.

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

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

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Post by al_borland »

wxw wrote: post #4

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]

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/

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