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Well, to be fair it was an exceptional evening, with very steady skies. The stars weren't even twinkling, and there was a fine high altitude haze, and this image was made out of a couple of thousand individual 640 x 480 pixel frames that I'd selected out of a video shot with the webcam, which I'd then aligned and stacked on my PC before applying some local contrast enhancement tweaks.
Still, in the right conditions, this is not that far off the view you can get at the eyepiece when conditions are right, but quite often the conditions are only right for a few fleeting moments in any one night's observing.
The Fry telescope ought to be a real treat on Jupiter: unobstructed optics (my scope has a whacking great secondary mirror sitting in front of the main mirror, which steals light and contrast) and a stonking 3.2 metre focal length which will give really high magnification.