You guess right. Astronomers haev been watching Jupiter getting brighter for months now and it'll be at opposition late October, and even brighter by then.

One of the big problems on GLP is that most people don't pay any attention to the skies until someone glances up and notices something, and posts a thread about it.

If you don't know what's supposed to be visible, how can you tell if it's wrong?

Hence all the threads about Jupiter, the sun and moon being "out of place" etc. etc. Yet all it takes is a few minutes to check with a star map program or web site...