[QUOTE=Lichen;20135465]When you're peering through an eyepiece:
-- very few things are colorful, like you see in pictures. Mars is one of the few things that's colorful
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Originally Posted by Lichen
-- you can't really see galaxies at all. They're just sort of globs.
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Everything is colourful. All stars and Galaxies produce a very wide spectrum of light which provide clues about their makeup but you can't really see this with a basic home telescope, but with a 50x or 100x telescope, you can see the color bands on Jupiter that make up the clouds.
If you have a 6 inch telescope you can see more color detail in Jupiter that includes clouds and various spots.
If you want to see something cool, wait until winter and then look for the Orion Nebula, just south of Orion's Belt. It has a cloud dust and gas made of hundreds of forming stars which can produce nice colours. This is probably the only one you can see since it is one of the closest (about 1200 light years I think) from Earth.