Comment Re:Bought My Kids A Telescope For Christmas (Score 1) 91
That was months ago.
Also, it takes a decent scope to see detail on saturn, such as a C5. A department store scope would never be able to.
While you might not see color bands, even a cheap telescope will let you see the rings. Heck, Galileo could sort of see the rings and he had optics much worse than a department store telescope!