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Originally Posted by Arcane
Now I have this huge telescope with pretty decent lenses and mars just looks like a Tiny dot? By Tiny I mean a pin point like a distant star. It really doesn't make sense specially seeing as Mars is a lot closer than Saturn.
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Yes, but the ball of Saturn subtends about 20" and its rings are almost 2.5 times as large, making its maximum apparent size (~46") about that of Jupiter's.
If you can't see a disk at 341x, then you are not looking at Mars. Mars is currently the third brightest natural object in the night sky and is located "above" the feet of Gemini, to the of east of M35 and south of M37 in Auriga.
Dave Mitsky