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[Jeannette]

Me againe. My binoculars are 10/50 and I can't see any planets clearly. My telescope the same. Where Saturn is I see a twinkling reddish colour. My map saes it's Saturn but should it twinkle.

[ronin]

Saturn is small and low(ish) so if the atmosphere is a bit turbulent then I would expect some "twinkling", simply refraction through the atmosphere.

Reddish (Ochre) sounds about right, due South I assume.

Even Jupiter only appears as a small disk in binoculars, no detail, so Saturn will be sort of a big dot = worse.

To see Saturn you need around 100x in magnification, 80x may be OK, 125x is OK, so as said something around the 100x area.

[happy-kat]

You will see the 4 bigger moons of Jupiter as pin pricks of light

[baggywrinkle]

What make are your bins?

It could be poor quality optics.

[SpaceWalker]

Me againe. My binoculars are 10/50 and I can't see any planets clearly. My telescope the same. Where Saturn is I see a twinkling reddish colour. My map saes it's Saturn but should it twinkle.

It depends on what time you observing it. If it's low at the beginning of the night, e.g. below 30* over Horizon, than you see it unclear through the intensive atmospheric refraction, than it's natural if it's twinkling. Observe ANY object when it's elevation is above 30*. I use Stellarium freeware to figure out when objects are high enough for good views. Although, at 10x magnification Saturn looks like a slightly elongated dot. As others have said above Jupiter also looks like very small disk with 4 doots (moons) nearby visible. Mars isn't good for binoculars since it requires much higher magnification even during opposition.