I love having a go at these 2 galaxies at Astrofest. It's so hard to get a good north horizon and dark skies in SE Qld. I was limited to shooting with the DSLR this year, but still stayed up to have a go at these 2. The fog was a fairly regular occurance this year, so there actually wouldn't have been too many nights for collecting lots of data anyway. I find the relative colour of the 2 interesting. There was a nasty gradient through this image which worsened as fog set in, but I think colours are still reasonably representative.
This is the result of 5x 5mins subs ISO 800 f/3.5 450D + f/1.8 50mm.
(sorry for spamming the forum tonight - have been catching up a bit on processing today
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Should have also said, this is cropped down to about 80% of horizontal and 30% of vertical to emphasise the galaxies.