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?
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?
What a waste of that telescope's potential. You can buy camera sensors for $1 on AliExpress that are insanely more powerful.
Yeah, I know "we did it because we can". This is getting old though. Point is there are thousands of things that are actually interesting you can do in the same time. Maybe someone should start a list.
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.
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.
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F%%k the closed web.
(or, in my case, read about it in nintendo power, but only saw it behind the glass case at Target)
Yeah, I know "we did it because we can". This is getting old though. Point is there are thousands of things that are actually interesting you can do in the same time. Maybe someone should start a list.
The headline seems to imply that he custom built a telescope for his gameboy.