telescopist

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:

     [T]o the astonishment of the telescopist who first recognised the change, the comet was found to be double.

References

• “telescopist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.