telescopist

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English

Etymology

From telescope +‎ -ist.

Noun

telescopist (plural telescopists)

  1. Someone who uses a telescope.
    Synonym: telescoper
    • 1873, Richard A. Proctor, The Borderland of Science: A Series of Familiar Dissertations on Stars, Planets, and Meteors:
      o the astonishment of the telescopist who first recognised the change, the comet was found to be double.

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