Jupiter is fun to watch and usually easy to find. Having a clock drive is useful, because it will scoot across your telescope’s field of view as the earth rotates underneath it.
Yes, I wonder how guys like Galileo managed to see so much of Jupiter as like you said, it moves across a telescope of any power before you can make out much.
I might go out with a 22X spotting scope tho you can’t make out much detail with it. It is a high quality ED glass scope and I can make out the rings of Saturn tho it still appears tiny.
Made me realize how far away it was...
I felt the distance...