Hi Antony,
Welcome to IIS, Congrates on the 8". I not sure but if you were looking south then it prob. wasn't saturn. I'm only a beginner myself so I could be totally wrong, but I think the planets are to the north. Download Stellarium from
http://www.stellarium.org/ if you havn't already. This is a great help when triing to ID thinks up above.
Once again welcome.
Regards