Jupiter and his moons

Inspired by a friend's success, I've been trying the past two or three nights to take a picture of Jupiter's moons. Tonight, I think, I succeeded.

I don't have much patience with tripods so I simply held the camera fairly tightly against a post on our back door step and aimed up through the trees. I manually focussed -- not an easy thing when you're trying to hold the camera steady with the left hand and then bring the right hand back to the body to push the shutter button. Everything else was manual too -- ISO 2000, a twentieth of a second at f/2.8.

I meant it to be at the longest part of the zoom, at 150mm, but I accidentally pushed it back to 130mm. No big deal.

I cropt it and, in colour, there were a lot of bad pixels. So I cloned out some and converted the whole works to b&w to reduce others. .

I suppose I'll have to buy myself a telescope some time. :)