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Dr Paul Leyland
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To amplify what Jeremy says: I have over sixty thousand images of T CrB taken with a Seestar S50. The size of the data processing task is daunting and automation will be essential. Your proposed system has a bigger aperture and, presumably, a better quality and equatorial mount.

The SS50 has a OSC camera, with its inevitable loss of sensitivity for precision photometry. If you can fit a mono camera and a photometric filter — almost certainly Johnson V — you should be able to do markedly better than a stock SS50.

Paul