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• n  someone indifferent to the busy world
• n  a physicist who studies astronomy
• n  heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head

• When the comet Ikeya-Seki curved around the sun last October, many a stargazer's camera was focused on its fiery trail.
• The British Astronomical Association said that one Will Hay, music-hall comedian and amateur stargazer, had spotted the spot 26 hours before Astronomer Willis saw it.
• There is just one problem: as any modern stargazer can testify, Sirius is not red but white.

• lotus-eater
• astronomer
• uranologist

News & Articles

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• BA couple married for 60 years die 24 hours apart
  The West Texas sky was so big and grand, Lafayette Boone couldn't help but stare at it." It was a habit that started as a boy, and for the rest of his life, he kept an eye on the heavens, following the newspaper's stargazer column religiously and reporting the weather on his ham radio.
  June 16, 2013 - Tulsa World