Thank you so much. I have spent the morning reading about how to use the planisphere (surprisingly easier to do during the day then by a red torch at night!).
I think the stars in the upper right of the picture are part of Canis Major (but really I have no idea what any of that means, other than they kind of look like and are in roughly the right position as what I am seeing on the planisphere - which I don't really know how to use
).
Thank you, I am downloading stellarium now...and about to go look at better images of the Nebula.