Perhaps the most productive change an observer can do for themselves is become familiar with the transition of the faster moving planets from left to right of the Sun or from an evening appearance to a morning appearance and then transition back to an evening appearance -

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The same applies to the background stars apart from the obvious fact that they only transition from evening to morning or left to right of the Sun. The stellar transition is due to the orbital motion of the Earth alone while the faster moving planets Venus and Mercury display this left/right and right/left due to their intrinsic orbital motion.

If people wish to call themselves astronomers, amateur or otherwise, they try their best to convey all that is most enjoyable and changing about the planets and stars to students or interested adults for that hasn't happened in such a long time.