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Jupiter at Conjunction

 Jupiter was at conjunction this month meaning Earth and Jupiter were on the same side of the Sun so to speak.  This means Jupiter, even though still really far away, was closer to Earth than it would be ordinarily.   I got lucky and was able to take a fairly decent picture given the gear I have is not up to snuff in terms of astronomical photography. 


Uncroped
 This first image is what I got at with my Zoom lens set to 600mm. 



First crop.
 Same image as the first only this image is cropped in a good way and I can just start to see the latitudinal bands around the planet.

Second crop.
This is cropped in about as far as I would want to go.  At this level about all I can tell is there are stripes and if I had the patience I think I could count the number of pixels that make up this exposure.

Useless crop.

Just as a demo I did one more crop to show the futility of any further cropping.
The image just falls apart. 

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