Good info Tareq,
I will caveat my answer because I do not separately image my stars from my targets. I merely capture my stars in OSC or Narrowband along with my target, then I separate the stars from the target, color correct/process them separately, and recombine at the end. That way I avoid the magenta/weirdly colored stars and I manage to get the same integration time for my stars as for the rest of my target.
I mentioned magnitude because if I have a REALLY bright star in your field of view (think Betelgeuse, Rigel, or Sirius), I tend towards shorter subframes (maybe 10-15 seconds even) to try to preserve a little more color/reduce the diffraction spikes more, but you didn't seem to mind those... so you can probably disregard that.
That being said, if your desire is to shoot RGB/OSC stars and combine them with narrowband, given your setup, then I would suggest starting with 30-60sec exposures at "unity gain" which is about 100 with your IMX571. The IMX571 has a pretty large file size, so if your file storage/computer will bog down with two many subframes then maybe lean towards 60 sec... This will accomplish two things:
1) Short exposures will minimize tracking errors and should give you rounder stars (assuming collimation/focus is tight).
2) Short exposures will minimize the chance of overexposed star cores, preserving the different star colors
Given enough sub exposures, the actual individual exposures won't matter too much.
Now for total integration time.
A good "test subject" for what you want to do is globular and open clusters. They are pretty much all stars so there are no more faint galactic arms or nebulosity to try to capture. You can concentrate solely on the stars. It is really easy to think that can just jam out about an hour of star subframes and call it good. If you look online you will see a lot of people who talk about just needing 2-3 hours of subframes even. Open clusters are all about not overexposing your star cores and getting your star colors down pat.
My personal opinion is that total integration time for stars should be as long as you can stand. If you can get 5 or 10 hours, that is great... 15-20 hours is even better (with diminishing returns), and this is why;
1) There is noise in star data, and the more subframes you can average into your final image the crisper and tighter your stars will appear.
you can look at my M38 image (
https://www.astrobin.com/full/yptq6g/0/) which is less than an hour of total integration. Zoom in and see what I'm talking about with star noise. It was a good study in stars for me, but I need to go back and add time in the future. Sidenote: this was made from 3 minute ASI2600MC Pro subframes at gain 0, so if you drop the gain, you get some well depth, and preserve color more easily, but now you are subject to more tracking errors and still have to clock in the total integration time... back on topic...
2) You will pick up more and fainter stars than you ever thought previously possible.
When I started focusing on M13 (
https://www.astrobin.com/r2b3dy/C/) a few months ago, I initially thought I could make do with an hour of integration (original)... and I later added more integration time to get to over 5 hours. You can see the comparison... how many more stars come out after the additional time. My goal... if I ever have a clear night again in my life... is to get up to 10 hours. Theoretically, 2 hours is twice as good as an hour... 4 hours is twice as good as two... then eight... then sixteen... but at some point you are processing a LOT of subframes to get an incremental gain that you can't perceive with your eyes. Generally speaking 24-36 hours of subframes are somehow considered "enough" for heavy light pollution areas, but your mileage may vary and you may also be comfy with a third of that for stars alone. My skies are between Bortle 7 and 8, depending on the amount of dust in the air. With Bortle 9, you are probably close to needing double what I'm happy with... it just takes patience and time. With your double rig, if you are taking RGB data with one camera and narrowband with the other, it may work out great. I've personally never used a rig like that.
Honestly, I'd probably say 5-10 hours would be enough...to start... That is 300-600 60-second subframes and 600-1200 30-second subframes. That is a lot of storage and computer resources, so if those are limited, you can hedge the lower end of that... If you are patient and/or you can combine multiple years worth of data over time... you know your star data will only get better. Start with an hour of star data... then add 4 more hours and compare... then add 5 more hours and compare... did you notice a difference?
I'm sure others will recommend more... or less... an any will give you a result and more time will always give you a better result.
Hope this helps? Is that what you are looking for?
The answer is always "it depends," but to my eyes, 5 hours is around the bare minimum.
You can dig into histogram analysis and signal to noise ratios... or go with the old WAG (wild ass guess) that has been a ballpark solution for me.