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Hi Joe.
Yes you should be able to see saturns rings with your setup. However you could be pushing the magnification just a bit by using a 6mm eyepiece with a barlow. The top magnification you would expect and still see fine detail is around 150X magnification. Using a 2X barlow and a 6mm eye piece will give you closer to 233X magnification. While you will be able to see something if you have the type of telescope I'm thinking of you will be hard pressed to track anything at that mag. Try just the 8 mm eyepiece on its own. The image will be small but at least it will be fairly sharp.
What other eyepieces do you have. Any chance of posting a pic of your scope so we can see what sort of mount it is on?
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