The cool word of the day is "tungolcraft"! This is the Old English for astronomer, and translates more or less to "star craft", and "tungol" is where the modern English word "twinkle" comes from. Of course, as has been pointed out to me, "twinklecraft", whilst sounding pretty cool, would be death to the modern optical astronomer, as twinkling is a sign of atmospheric disturbance and means your seeing is going to be horrible and you're going to end up with awful images... (Hang on, isn't this why we have Hubble and Adaptive Optics etc??).
Of course, as another astronomer friend points out, being a "tungolcrafter" really needs an office adorned with lots of cool looking brass instruments, and maybe a sword by your side. Maybe you also need a copper nose and a cool sounding observatory? ;)
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