With its 750mm focal length, you will need the 5mm eyepiece to see Saturn well. This scope should give you a much better view of Saturn than your previous scope, but you need to keep in mind two things:

• For good planetary viewing you need a magnification of 150X to 250X.
• Saturn's aspect (orientation of its rings relative to our line of sight) is "closing" right now, so the rings are approaching edge-on and will be almost invisible by the end of this year and for much of 2009.

Also, Jupiter (rising just after midnight right now) is very low in the sky for most of this year, so it will show good detail on only the clearest of nights and when it is due South of you (for Northern hemisphere observers).

There is an animated tutorial on EQ mounts here. That should help you get started.

I love this scope! It has performed amazing and I've only had it one year.

No photo is going to give you a good representation of how big/or good an item will look like in any scope. To get an idea of how big an item will be with a certain eyepiece you will need to simulate this in program such as starry night, or otherwise.

 On a really good night you can go down to a 3mm eyepiece. That's pushing it too. I saw Saturn at that power and it looked pretty cool, but it is still small!

Deep space objects are awesome to view. A 13mm works great on most objects. Good choice on the Telrad I have one as do most. Check out the free Messier Telrad maps: http://www.astro-tom.com/messier/messier_finder_charts/messier_maps.htm

As with just about any decent scope the eyepiece is where it is at (next to aperture).

 Check out my photos all taken with this scope here: www.yoursweetthyme.com/fuadramsey

 Shoot back with any questions.

 I also posted a very basic how to setup video using that scope on youtube just look up omni xlt 150 with my username fuadramsey.