6/2/2008 10:15pm EDT Wednesday Night
Equipment: 130mm f/8 long tube reflector, 26mm, 9.7mm and 6.4mm plossl (39x, 105x, and 159x, respectively) and 2x barlow (78x, 210x, and 319x respectively). Naked-eye seeing approx mag 4.3 around zenith.
ngc2438, thanks for that link to GRS Transit times. There was a transit at 10:53pm last night, the sky was clear, so I got the 'scope out and set it all up. Jupiter is still low in the South and I got it centered in the 'scope at 159x. I could see the 2 major equatorial cloud belts, but still couldn't make out the GRS. I watched for about 5 minutes or so as the cloud belts cleared and fuzzed due to the atmosphere. I tried the barlow and 6.4mm EP (319x) which was way too blurry - I couldn't get focus. I tried the barlow and 9.7mm EP (210x) and I still couldn't get focus. 159x seems the best I could do. I'm skeptical as to whether I can see the GRS due to it being so low in the South all the time. Watching the cloud belts come in and out of focus I realize how much atmosphere there is at that low angle.
ngc2438, I took a stab at NGC 7027 and got lost trying to star-hop to it. I know I would probably be better off with different software or an actual star atlas, but, for better or for worse (worse in this case) I was using Meade AutoStar Suite as my software star atlas. Using 58 nu Cyg as my starting point (because I could see it), I started star-hopping North-East to SAO 50301 (small magnitude 7.1 red star) to SAO 50342 to SAO 50409/50407 (I don't know if this is a binary or optical double, but these 2 stars are very close, magnitude 6.3 and 9.0 respectively). I was right there!!! There are a couple other dim stars that make the letter "V" opening out to the west with SAO 50409/50407 at the tip. But Meade AutoStar shows two more magnitude 6.3 stars beneath the "V" which form more like the letter "X". I did not see this in my 'scope. I thought that since they are magnitude 6.3 they should be pretty bright, but there was nothing in my 'scope in that area - just black sky. It was getting late and I figured I was lost so I gave it up.
Today, as I was writing this up, I went back and started verifying Meade AutoStar Suite with Google Sky and found that Google Sky did not show these two strange 6.3 magnitude stars either! Then, I clicked on those stars in Meade Autostar Suite and the info window shows them both as "SAO 0"!!! I think Meade AutoStar Suite is showing bogus stars! It wasn't me going insane after all!!! And I was only 50 arc-minutes away!!!
I did check on Jupiter one last time at about 11:30pm it was higher up in the south (about 25 deg. Alt). I looked for the GRS again - still no luck. The atmosphere must have gotten worse, actually, because the cloud belts kept appearing and disappearing every few seconds (not just fuzzing in and out like before). I thought about exploring Sagittarius, but then realized I have to do the "go to work" thing in the morning. So, I packed it in and went to bed. There will be other nights. 
-StarNerd