With the moon, look into the eyepiece from about 6 or 7 inches [150-175mm] for about 5 seconds, and slowly move closer over a period of
about 10 secs. Your pupil will have closed down enough by then to make viewing comfortable.
Saturn itself is visually quite bland, a sort of pale cream. In a low
power eyepiece it will appear very small, but bright. As you increase
the magnification by using higher power eyepieces, it will appear
larger, but dimmer. The same thing applies to the moon.
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