{"id":676506,"date":"2026-07-06T10:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676506\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:41:13","slug":"i-abandoned-the-newest-gopro-on-a-beach-overnight-to-record-the-stars-and-i-cant-believe-how-long-the-battery-lasted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676506\/","title":{"rendered":"I abandoned the newest GoPro on a beach overnight to record the stars \u2013 and I can\u2019t believe how long the battery lasted"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love photographing the stars, but my favorite lazy photographer astrophotography hack is to start a time-lapse \u2013 and then go to sleep. The GoPro Mission 1 Pro<\/a> seemed ripe for such a shot.<\/p>\n

GoPro<\/a> says that the battery life is the best yet, and the larger sensor improves low-light performance, so I abandoned the newest GoPro on a beach overnight.<\/p>\n

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The Mission 1 Pro isn\u2019t the first GoPro that I\u2019ve used to photograph the night sky. I\u2019ve previously set up my GoPro Hero 12 Black<\/a> on a time-lapse during northern lights activity so I could move around and snap a variety of different compositions with my mirrorless camera<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was surprised at how well the action camera<\/a> then managed to capture the night sky \u2013 but in the past I\u2019ve always used the GoPro Volta battery tripod<\/a> in order to record a complete time-lapse from darkness to sunset.<\/p>\n

Curious to see just how much the camera\u2019s new 1-inch sensor and larger battery make a difference, I set the new Mission 1 Pro on a tripod just after midnight and started recording.<\/p>\n

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I set the camera to create a 4K timelapse, as I wanted more detail than FullHD but didn\u2019t want a lot of noise with the starlight conditions. That meant the still images were around 8MP.<\/p>\n

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I set the camera up to use a slower 20-second shutter speed, to let in the most light and blur the lake. I programmed the camera to take a photo every minute, shooting both an assembled video and JPEG images, and then went to sleep.<\/p>\n

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Under these settings \u2013 and a hot summer evening \u2013 the Mission 1 Pro managed to record from about 00:20 to 05:30. That was long enough that I had to cut the last second off my video, as the battery lasted long enough to run just past sunrise and overexpose the last few frames.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s an impressive length of time for such a small camera to keep shooting without plugging into an external battery pack.<\/p>\n

The still photos that the GoPro stitched into a video are equally impressive, coming from such a small camera and as 8MP shots. The stars aren\u2019t quite tack-sharp, and I did pull up the shadows a bit to see more detail from the lake shore, but, I thought the shots were very good coming from an action cam rather than a mirrorless camera.<\/p>\n

Yes, I could get more resolution by using 8K or shooting 50MP RAW photos \u2013 but I wanted to balance low-light quality and battery life. Considering the GoPro still recorded past sunrise, now I\u2019m eager to try an 8K timelapse next.<\/p>\n

The GoPro Mission 1 Pro feels like a natural evolution for the popular action camera maker. The camera still looks, feels and operates like a GoPro, but that boosted sensor and battery are a welcome change.<\/p>\n

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I also tried out the GoPro Mission 1 Pro as a point-and-shoot camera<\/a>. Read more about the best action cameras<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I love photographing the stars, but my favorite lazy photographer astrophotography hack is to start a time-lapse \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-676506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}