text: i want to view the ring around saturn with my telescope, what do i look for in the sky?   you don't require a telescope as big as an observatory. if you have a telescope of reasobale magnification, its good enough. infact this is the best time of the year to view saturn and you can view saturn with any telescope now till june 2006.   first of all, you need to have a chart of where to look for saturn. there are so many ways...but let me give you an example. you have to get longitude and latitude information of your current city. you can get it by going to the below website and finding your city. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/a0001769.html after you get that information, you can go to the below website and key in that longitude and latitude information and it will give you the sky chart of where to look for saturn. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/kids/activities-nightsky.cfm  the best time to view saturn is till june 2006. that clear view of saturn will not come again for the coming year. may be in 2014. also the below website gives you information about where exactly saturn would be visible month by month. http://soc.jpl.nasa.gov/viewing.cfm  enjoy saturn viewing and sky watching.