[caleb]

I went outside last night at about 11:45pm and was planning to see Jupiter, i went out a dark area and saw a bright 'star-like' body and said to myself, "thats definitly it".
So I went and got my scope and set up set-up. But then I could't see any detail. It definitly has a larger in magnitude to Saturn, and I can see that and its rings. The best thing while looking at it was the 3 moons i think i could see. I then chucked the 2X barlow on which made it worse.
Is there something i'm doing wrong. Also, The star was between a house and a large tree. I know there wasn't any branches obstructing the view. I have also read that looking at a something only a bit over the top of a roof on a house is bad becuase of the heat waves, But it was chilli, not jumper weather but it was cold. And I was looking over the top of the roof, it was on the side of the wall.