Will I be able to see Jupiter tonight with my binoculars with a magnification of 15x?
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Will I be able to see Jupiter tonight with my binoculars with a magnification of 15x? Or will it still be too small to see?
Thanks Vincent 
I guess my city is too bright to see anything tonight, because I'm looking in the right place (east) and I still don't see anything with my naked eye 
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You can see Jupiter with the naked eye, zero magnification is needed. Of course, it just looks like a rather bright star.
Magnification (actually, it is more a question of light gathering area and resolution) is to allow noticing details.
Sure, you can see Jupiter even without binoculars. Just look up.
If you’re wanting to see any detail,its doubtful you would. I know that with 10×50 binoculars, it just looks looks a bigger star. Hard to believe you can’t see jupiter even in a bright city, jupiter is the brightest object in the sky right now,after the moon. It rises in the east and travels west through out the night across the sky, can’t miss it. Could be thats its cloudy where you are.
Jupiter is the very bright star in the East, and it is easily seen with no optical aid. 15x binoculars have enough magnification to show the 4 large moons orbiting Jupiter, but not any detail on the planet itself.
Certainly you’ll be able to see Jupiter. You’ll also be able to see its moons as tiny dots alongside the planet. But 15x isn’t enough magnification to see any detail on Jupiter; that requires about 50x.
On a clear night away from a busy city you can see Jupiter unaided, you can also see Mars, Venus and Saturn. not all at the same time obviously but at the right times of the year you can. with the naked eye Jupiter could easily be mistaken for a bright star or perhaps even the space station, but with 15x on your binoculars you should be able to resolve at least a little bit of detail, perhaps the great red spot.
the telescope that Galileo used in the 1600’s was capable of about 30x, and he was able to see Jupiter’s 4 large moons, so you should still get a pretty good view with 15x.