Naked-eye astronomy is more than just meteors.

I don't know if this is a true story -- but an astronomer told me that he was showing M13, M51, and M31 to a young lady -- she said, "They sure are fuzzy. I can see why they are called messier objects!"

Every time we boondock, I try to get my poor wife to look at the Andromeda Galaxy, which is hard to find even in a very dark sky if you don't know where to look. By the time I get through explaining how to use Cassiopeia as a pointing device, she invariably falls asleep.