I am increasingly interested in night time lapse. In FEB 2014, I might get opportunity to catch aurora borealis in northern US. I will be camping with Boy Scouts and want to make it a learning experience. Can a GoPro Hero 3+ Black be used in video or stills to capture AB? I tried David Newman's video technique for sunrise, but I'm too far south (and city bound) to try to catch AB? Thoughts?

I've had very poor results with Gopros for anything in other than good lighting - the exposure system also isn't designed to cope with night stuff at all.

Night time-lapse is best using video, Protune at 24p (longer exposure), then blend the frames. Blog post on the how to: CineForm Insider: Rethinking Time-lapse (http://cineform.blogspot.com/2012/12/rethinking-time-lapse.html)

Night timelapse with HERO3: 24 Hours of Lemons at Chuckwalla Dec 2012. on Vimeo (seconds 41-58)

HERO3 Launch Party in Time-lapse on Vimeo (from 58s onward.)

It's hard to get video of the northern lights. Most time lapses of the northern lights are a series of still pictures, taken with a DSLR, a large sensor to pull in light, coupled with a 'fast' lens and a slow shutter speed. I just don't think a GoPro is going to cut it. Here is a video timelapse shot with a Sony FS700
and a 1.8 lens shooting 1fps with a shutter speed of 1 second. Not nearly as good as a DSLR timelapse, but I'm not a DSLR shooter and only own video cameras.

Northern lights on Vimeo

Here's my first attempt using GoPro Hero3+ using 4k 15fps sped up and blurred.

Night Driving