Jupiter was at opposition two days ago, on February 2, which means that it is still in the middle of its retrograde motion back to the west in Cancer.  Here we see the king of planets moving in on M 44, the Beehive Cluster, shining at magnitude -2.59 and with an equatorial diameter of 45.5" arcseconds.

This photo was taken with a Nikon FE2 camera with I'm guessing a 55 mm lens. I would have mounted the camera on my Celestron C8 for the purpose of tracking the stars for several minutes, but I don't know the exact duration.

To see the unannotated photo, click here.