First planet sighting

We caught our first look at a planet through our telescope tonight. We were able to see Jupiter, along with it's moons (the picture doesn't do it justice). We weren't even sure it was a planet at first (and we didn't know which planet until we got home and looked it up - yes, we're very amateur astronomers). We noticed a big bright thing in a part of the sky where there should have been nothing bright, according to our star wheel. At first we thought it was an airplane, like all those bright "stars" we see that flash red and blue, but through the telescope it was clearly a beautifully round planet, surrounded by a diagonal line of moons (o.k., we didn't figure out that those were moons until we looked up pictures of Jupiter). It was a very exciting night.