My dad had a large A3 sized astronomy book he got from Readers Digest and I'd sit and look at it every chance I got. Later on I got into science and physics at school and would use our binoculars to look at easy-to-find objects and the rather poor smudge of an effort in 1986 of Halley's Comet.
I love the science side of astronomy as well as trying to get ancient photons to hit my retina.
I could sit for hours (and have) just looking at the beautiful structure of 47 Tuc, finding various asterisms within it, and I never get tired of finding NGC4755 and NGC5128.
I've seen those glazed eyes and kinda feel sad for those people though I'm sure they think I'm a nut
