For years now, fans have been creating addons and attachments for the Nintendo Game Boy Camera to take more powerful pictures, although they’re always going to be limited by the technology. One of these projects is the Camera+ which allows full-sized lenses to be attached to the Game Boy peripheral to take more realistic photos.

However, one fan has gone above and beyond, connecting the camera to an observatory telescope to take pictures of space. TikTok user and Chiptune Ska musician Chris Graue, aka Lo(u)ser, collaborated with the Mount Wilson Observatory in California to snap the furthest pictures ever taken on the retro gaming device.

The Mount Wilson Observatory is home to the iconic Hooker Telescope, which was used by astronomer Edwin Hubble in 1923 to prove the universe existed outside of the Milky Way galaxy. In 2026, 103 years later, the telescope was used to take pictures on a Game Boy.

“I wanted to photograph the furthest object I could with Nintendo’s 1998 four-colour, grayscale, 128-pixel camera,” the TikTokker said. “And it worked.” Graue modified the Game Boy Camera with a 3D-printed case to attach C-mount lenses and a custom adapter to connect to the 1.25-inch eyepiece of the Hooker Telescope, as well as another adapter to connect to the older, 60-inch telescope from 1908.

Using the telescopes, Graue took multiple pictures of the Moon, although the telescope’s strength and the poor image quality of the Game Boy Camera meant that very little was busy. “This telescope is way overkill for something as close as the Moon,” he said with only a snippet of the lunar surface visible at a time through the eyepiece.

Afterwards, they moved onto Jupiter, a planet situated an average of 484 million miles away. While image quality is noticeably rough, they managed to snap multiple pictures of the planet with the 1998 handheld on the telescope.

“The Game Boy Camera is so cropped, I’m only able to get a piece of it [Jupiter]” they said. Nevertheless, you can see elements of the planet that are identifiably Jupiter, including its iconic stripes.

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is this the largest lens on a game boy camera ever?

♬ original sound – Lo(u)ser {Chris Graue}

While the Game Boy Camera is archaic in terms of digital photography prowess, it can still be used with technology far older, as well as far newer tech. While the photos themselves may not be all that legible, they are real and in the age of digital fakery that we’re in, it’s inspiring to see Nintendo’s tiny chunky handheld punch above its weight.