Well, this reality does exist, but more for amateur astronomers. The face of the night is so familiar to them, that they actually notice when a new, faint light begins to shine where it hadn't before. This blows my mind. I can't tell you how many times I've been asked to host a Public Night at an observatory, and some well-meaning child has pointed up at a random star and asked its name, or what constellation it's part of. I don't have a clue.
Professional astronomers are really physicists.
Even when we observe the universe with giant telescopes, we let the computers find the stars in the sky and steer the telescope. I may be overly nostalgic here, but I think we've lost something. A kinship with the night sky was the original foundation of astronomy. For tens of thousands of years, humans have looked up at the night sky and got to know it well. They've notices the changes the sky makes over the course of days, months, and years, and they've used this information to fit themselves into some larger Cosmic Scheme.