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Originally Posted by OzStarGazer
Mars is definitely distinctly orange! Even without a telescope.
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To the naked eye, Jupiter looks like a very bright white star to me, but Mars is distinctly orange, and Saturn is yellow. (You may describe them as different colours, as I'm red-green colour blind!) Jupiter is easy to find because it is so bright, but to my eye, the colours of Mars and Saturn make them very easy to spot against other bright stars around them - their colours are even more discriminating for me than the fact that they don't twinkle like the stars do.
With my 90 mm and 130 mm telescopes, I see Jupiter as bands of pink and cream, Mars is shades of red and orange, and Saturn is shades of yellow.
To the OP: as I said earlier, try using a ND filter and / or colour filters and / or an aperture stop to reduce their brightness, so they are not dazzlingly bright to your dark-adapted eyes, and you should be easily able to see lots of subtle shades and colours.