[SunkenCiv]

[Credit and Copyright: J.C. Canonne, P. Bernhard, D. Chaplain & L. Bourgon]

[momtothree]

I’ve looked and looked.. not seeing an elephant’s trunk. Cool pics though...

[dr_lew]

Here's an overlay of the view in my Starry Night Pro 7, rotated and sized to match. I set the time to get approximately the same orientation, and this turned out to be 12:40 AM, at this date in Northern Illinois, but this would be about the same from anywhere along this latitude, local time. The Elephant's Trunk is about 50 degrees above the horizon.

The lines of celestial latitude run vertically, and that's 57.5 degrees north down the middle, bracketed by 57 and 58 degrees. The big green circle is part of the Starry Night display, and marks the Elephant's Trunk region.