star-gazer

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For, after all, Is the star any the less starry to the rapt star-gazer when he finds it to be a tremulous planet?

From Hints for Lovers by Haultain, T. Arnold (Theodore Arnold)

A triangular sail set above the skysail; if square it would be a moonsail, and if set above that, a star-gazer, &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

The big telescope amazed him, and so did the patient star-gazer, who often sat out-of-doors in the most intense cold for five or six hours at a time.

From The Great German Composers by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)

So he hastens to add that, of course, "the true pilot" will be called "a prater, a star-gazer, a good-for-nothing."

From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter

And yet, to give credit where credit is due, I must admit that I owe a great deal to that gray-beard, Maka, the star-gazer.

From The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life by Flint, Homer Eon