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Naked eye viewing IS still a wondrous thing ... I am using my scope almost nightly, usually from around 11pm to 2 or 3 am, it's nice and quiet and dark then, but I still stop frequently and just let my eyes roam around the heavens for the sheer joy of it, trying to take in the enormity of it all! You don't see the "shooting stars" peering into an eyepiece, nor many of the satellites floating around serenely as they go about their business.
Sometimes I use my eyes alone to go "fuzzy spotting" then when I spot one I use the scope to check it out. Try it, you'll see what I mean, learn to look "off-axis" ie try to take note of things that are not directly where you are actually "looking" but offset, because the human eye has greater light sensitivity this way.
As for binocs - well they are great as you have found now Sheap, I often use either my 8-24x variables, or even the scopes attached 8x finder, and just troll around the milky way until something catches my eye.
And something always does!!
" 6 weeks ago I kuldn't even spell arstronomar, and now I are one!! "
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