Take a good look at it. One day, maybe a year later, a tiny sugar crystal is added, somewhere, on any one of 1,000 cards. I can remember faces better than names. And remembering what a galaxy looks like is a bit like remembering faces. It's a matter of knowing where things are in the sky.
Professional astronomers have a different pattern of working, of course.
Many of them use telescopes that find the objects for them, so if you gave them an amateur telescope and asked them to find an object they'd probably have difficulty. One of the things that isn't widely understood about professional astronomy is that the big mountaintop telescopes that the professionals use can only be aimed at very small, specific parts of the sky at a time. Literally millions of things happen in the sky that are simply not noticed by professional astronomers. He admits the application of his findings to hard science is sometimes incomprehensible to him, but this in no way diminishes his appreciation of the starring role of amateurs. Before Evans developed his passion for astronomy in his late teens he had already begun to look to an altogether different heaven.