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I have started to use my Seestar S50 as a robotic telescope to keep an unattended “eye” on T CrB. It will start observing at 01:00 GMT when the telescope gets a clear LOS on T CrB (from where I can keep it safe) and it will record images for ca 3 hrs atm, and then shut down again, powered by an external powerbank (so I’m not wearing out the internal batteries so much). An errupting T CrB would probably saturate the sensor soonish, but at least I could, when lucky, contribute the initial erruption and some part of the pre-erruption phase.
As the sub-frames are accessible to other computers on my home network (as the Seestar S50 shares it’s storage in the local network as a network drive) it would in theory be possible to script something that would actually monitor T CrB in real-time, unattended, during all of this. Has anyone done this kind of scripting already?
Clear Skies
Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein
