astrophilic

comparative more astrophilic · superlative most astrophilic

1. rareRelated to or exhibiting astrophilia.

   The cosmos is limitless. The theater, with its four pesky walls, is not. The contrast might faze many an astrophilic thespian, but British performer Andrew Dawson has embraced it.

   2012 May 2, “Space Panorama”, in Philadelphia City Paper

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   […] is it specks on my glasses instead of lines of kids that I see in front of the movie houses hereabouts showing Brewster McCloud, the asinine tale of an astrophilic adolescent holing up in Houston's Astrodome; […]

   1971, New Guard, volumes 11-12, page 24

   For me, this urge to gather and the draw of the night sky combine to create an iconic vision: a lineup of telescopes, with a nebula in this one, a star cluster in another and a planet in yet another, and people moving from one to the other to savor a view, then returning to their own scope to locate and view a different object and share again. It’s an astrophilic breaking of bread, an astronomical movable feast!

   2012 October, Frank Baratta, “An Astronomical Movable Feast”, in Roanoke Valley Astronomical Society, volume 29, number 10, page 2