I am still working on just being able to see the Cassini Division.

 

With steady, reasonably dark skies your 80mm refractor will show it to you.
Keep trying you will get it!

 

What magnification are you using when you have observed Saturn? The Cassini Division should not be too much of a challenge with a good 80mm refractor if the seeing is ok and enough magnification is used, even in a light polluted sky. The Cassini Division, if I remember correctly, is only 0.8" wide, so it does require some higher magnification to be seen well. Since the Cassini Division is only 0.8" wide most smaller instruments are only seeing it as a "contrast feature" which generally requires a well corrected telescope at 80mm.

 

I can easily see the Casinni Division with my Orion 80MM, F7.5 APO. With decent skies it’s clearly visible under mag of 100x. It’s been a while, but I have observed it with my 114mm F8 reflector also under 100x. Of course apperature is important in observing Cassini. More light that a larger apperature gathers causes the division to appear more clear and sharp. It’s easily observed with my 8” scopes.

And, with an 8” scope one can push the mag without as much worry of drowning out the view because of over mag.

As “scopejunkie“ wrote, you should observe it with an 80MM scope given enough mag.

Also, a nice sharp eyepiece is important. A good plossl or Ortho fits the bill.

 

My 80mm was my first telescope but I really haven't started using it yet. I've been using mostly my 60mm telescope and binoculars.

 

I understand. The 80mm should be substantial increase in apperature.

 

It has to do with when I bought it, the time it takes to set up, and where I reside.
I purchased my 80mm EQ refractor when I was still taking care of my Mother who had a stroke and could not do anything for herself. It was one of the things that I bought in advance. I could not even try to use it at all while I was taking care of her.
Where I am forced to reside is a very bad and dangerous place. In one of the years that I resided here there were about a half dozen people murdered just right around the outside of my building. I have to take precaution when I go out to observe. What I have been doing up to now is using speed. I go out an take as quick a look as I can an hurry back inside. The EQ mount of my 80mm refractor takes to long to set up and take down and exposes me for to long. I am planning on trying to use it in the early morning instead of in the evening which might be safer.

 

That’s sounds tough. I live in West Virginia. It’s always been save compared to most places. But in the last few years u have noticed a slow change.

I am a runner. Due to several personal issues I often run through Clarksburg, (the town where I live) in the night. This has seldom been a problem.

However, that has been changing. I see more homeless out late at night. Fir the most part it’s not a problem. But lately some of the homeless are high.

 

It has always been dangerous here but it is much more so now. Johnstown has become like the states dumping ground for its undesirables.