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canthonytucci
Can I see the picture of Jupiter though? Seems like one of the 2 pictures this article would need
mmmlinux
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
Probably because it is a kind of autogenerated article betting it all on the clickbait title to generate ad dollars.
wxw
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]

al_borland
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
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.

zx8080
Where is the photo?
RagnarD
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.
voidUpdate
Having the colour of your links be very close to the default colour of links you've already clicked is an interesting style choice
realaccfromPL
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...
Sharlin
Blogspam article with more ads than content.
mikedd
This is why the internet was born.
stdatomic
I don't know why I was expecting to be amazed by the photo.
[dead] amelius
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gus_massa
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.)