This was imaged very early in the morning in September and is a preview of what we will see in a few months. So for those of us who can't wait you just need to stay up late or get up earlier. This is a very familiar object in colour amongst amateur astronomers but the black and white imagery reinforces the shape and form. The small chip size of the CCD imager makes the use of mosaics necessary to include the whole object. I now have a future project.

Imager: Meade DSI Pro
Telescope: Televue NP101is
Exposures: 8 light frames of varying exposures from 5 to 30 seconds. Light frames were auto dark frame subtracted at the time of exposure.
Capture: MaxDSLR with final processing Adobe Photoshop CS2