Selecting a Telescope for Viewing Planets I hope to observe planets like Jupiter and Saturn, and moons. I am a novice when it comes to telescopes and I know images in magazines are not taken with at least 12-inch telescope in a middle of nowhere. Is it possible to view Saturn in little yellowish and Mars in little reddish using following telescopes?  I am going to buy one of them. Which one is worth more for the money with the price difference?

I am living in Sri Lanka (a country close to the equator) in a suburban city.

Option 1
EQ-Reflecting telescope


Aperture: 135mm
Focal length: 800mm Focal ratio: f/6 
Max power: 265x when the air is steady
Price: 300USD approx 
Link: http://www.ksonoptics.com:8081/Product/PrdDtls/121/


Option 2
EQ-Reflecting telescope


Aperture: 114mm
Focal length: 900mm Focal ratio: f/8 
Max Power: 228x when the air is steady.
Price: 220USD approx
Link: http://www.ksonoptics.com:8081/Product/PrdDtls/119/
Go with Option 1 (135mm) as it has bigger light collecting area, i.e. diameter of primary mirror. It will enable you to see faint objects and it will also help you to see the dim objects under a greater zoom eyepiece, e.g. 4mm or 10mm.

Also, don't fool yourself with the bigger numbers advertized by telescope vendors like 238X zoom or 300X zoom.

First, these are zooming power using Barlow lenses also the more you zoom in on any object, the less light you gather on the mirror and hence objects will look much fainter in appearance. I will suggest the 10mm eyepiece with a 135mm telescope (Option 1) will be sufficient for you to observe planets like Jupiter, its Galilean satellites, Saturn's rings and also many Messier objects like Andromeda Galaxy M31, the Honey Bee Cluster, and open star clusters in the Auriga constellation.

Also bear in mind that you live in a country area closer to sea like here in India and the weather will be hot and humid. 
So ask the vendor about special coating which protects the mirror from rusting (spots on mirror due to moisture) during the humid monsoon season as at least for 4 months it will be humid.