We can clearly see craters on the Moon.
July 5, 2017 10:43 AM   Subscribe

2bit Astrophotography with the Game Boy Camera Alexander Pietrow, an astronomy and instrumentation student of Leiden University in the Netherlands, recently used a Game Boy Camera combined with a telescope to capture images of the Moon and infinities beyond.
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Ok, this is the coolest thing I've seen all day.
posted by Fizz at 11:42 AM on July 5, 2017


Actually the Game Boy has been making appearances this year, most recently with a project to enhance its images with neural networks.
posted by interglossa at 11:45 AM on July 5, 2017 [2 favorites]


See also the Pixelvision camera which had brief popularity in the 1990s as an arty film effect. The movie Nadja used it for vampire-vision-cam.
posted by Nelson at 1:58 PM on July 5, 2017 [2 favorites]


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