Imaged with a Canon EOS 20D on the focal plane of a 10" Meade LX200. Image covers an area of 46X32 arc minutes. Exposure time was two minutes at f/6.3. Camera setting were 1600ISO, daylight white balance and automatic dark subtraction. Image enhancements used were curves, unsharp masking, uneven area smoothing and made smaller for the Web.

Shaking with Larson-Sekanina filter in AstroArt3 reveals the ion tail.