stargazer

noun

Etymology: From star + gazer.

1. Someone who gazes at the stars; an astronomer or astrologer (now especially an amateur one).

   “Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers, the starre-gazers, the monethly prognosticators stand vp, and saue thee from these things that shall come vpon thee.”

   “[…] the four satellites of Jupiter, which, it is thought, were probably visible to certain of the more sharp-sighted stargazers of ancient Babylonia.”

2. Any of family Uranoscopidae of bottom-dwelling fish.

   “A stargazer is a frightening fish by any sretch of the imagination, but not until the day I first saw one in its own world did I understand its true nature.”