Stupid, simple but serious question here. What do you like about amateur astronomy? When I saw some pictures of what is possible to see with amateur telescopes, well, i was a bit dissapointed (for example this: HERE Planets are almost like dots ..and better not to mention nebulas or galaxies... Many people must go and they really go out of cities, like many many km by car to dark place, to actually see something (a dot). Why do they do that? Is it just the visual part of it what you appreciate? Or do you like the process itself of finding objects? (Then why someone would buy those goto telescopes?) Or what do you actually like? Sorry if the question seems a bit dishonouring, I do not mean it, I am just curious :) also note that I have never watched the sky through telescope, so maybe this is why i need to even ask such a obvious question.