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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.

Since this part of the sky is such ideal position, I decided to see if I could get a shot of it. I ended up doing 30 seconds at 6400 ISO, with my Nikon D5100 200 mm lens, right in my back yard. The sky was clear, but slightly murky.

It might not look like much, but it shows a lot more than I can see with 9X63 binoculars, and mainly it can help you appreciate what it takes to get these APOD shots.