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Your becoming an imager, nothing wrong with that. Many people get tied of viewing faint grey smudges and want the thrill of being able to use the arriving photons to build something beautiful. The problem with the human eye is "time", it can only ever construct an image in an instant of time. If the human brain could retain the image over time and build on it there would be no imaging probably. Don't buy into that BS that 'I want to see it directly, and that is the only valid approach to astronomy - as no one sees it directly if your using a scope. People use magnified narrow field of view through a scope and EP, then the arriving photon has to hit the right cell in your retina and the ensuing 'electrical signal' be relayed to the vision centre of your brain via the nerve pathways, where the brain builds a real time image using the incoming data. Tell me that is not just biological imaging.
As people age their eyes age and in many cases lose resolving power, or change shape and need correction, all of which pushes people into looking at augmentation. Make the best use of your time while you can see the wonders of space. I too have a collection of very nice EPs but rarely use them anymore. I have gradually been selling them off as I spend more time imaging. Whether you stack photons into images over long periods of time or use video enhancement to capture your just building on the basic performance of the human eye - enjoy it however you choose.
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