GoPro time lapse meteor showers

[Astrofriend]

When you have a lot of fun stuff you always think, is there another way I can use it ?

I bought recently an used GoPro Hero5 Black camera. It's excelent to do time lapse movies with. But could it be used for astrophotography ? I have in mind doing time lapse of meteor showers.

When I use my DSLR with a mechanical shutter I use 1/100 of its life time every night I use it for time lapse. With the GoPro camera there is no mechnical shutter, but will it be sensitive enough ? A very rough estimate is that it only have 1/10 of the sensitivity per pixel. But I'm curious, I want to test it.

I collected some information here and test that I have done:
http://www.astrofriend.eu/astronomy/projects/project-gopro-as-timelapse/01-project-gopro-as-timelapse.html

At the end a link to last night Perseid meteor shower.

And it really works, but only catch the strongest meteors, but the camera is small and I can have it in my pocket so very easy to bring out in the dark and setup.

/Lars

[Saturnine]

Thanks Lars, some more experimentation and information from you. I have a cheap Go-Pro copy that may not be as sensitive as a geniune Go-Pro but have had the thought a few times that I should try it as an all sky camera for catching meteors.

[Astrofriend]

Hi Jeff,
Give it a try, maybe it is more sensitive than you belive.

Some has doing a movie of a comet. But I think they must be really bright.

Last night photos:
http://www.astrofriend.eu/astronomy/astronomy-photo/meteor-shower/perseids/perseids-2020/perseids-2020.html

Got something very bright, I think it is a Iridium flash.

/Lars