Night Sky Enthusiast Gifts

Skimming out star reflections

'Goodness! Is that the time?'

"If we announce what we've found, it'll get a small article in the paper. If we say we can't figure out what it is, it'll make the front page."

'I have to say, the stars are magnificent in the desert at night...'

Blue video.

'It can't be easy being a wishing star. It's probably 'gimme gimme gimme' all night long.'

"Even though we work with enormous numbers, a zillion just doesn't tell us very much."

"Oh, come on - 'The Great Bear' sounds better than 'The Great Piglet'."

Romantic Moon

Pilot with champagne.

'I don't know which was prettier - the meteor shower or the cascade of flaming space junk.'

Serenading

"Isn't the universe wonderful?" "I thought there was supposed to be fireworks."

'Flight simulator'

"Something goes around something, but that's as far as I've got."

"Oh Wow! Shooting star!"

'Stop quoting from films and get on with it.'

"When I was your age the Big Dipper was over THERE."

"Dad, can you tell me what a solar eclipse is?"

Scientist drinking night sky through telescope

"Another nightmare?"

'I love looking at the stars. I think of us as celestial paparazzi.'

"You're right. This is better than sex."

"Kind of makes you realize how insignificant my awesome beard is."

'We discovered a massive dust and gas cloud which is either the beginning of a new star of just a hell of a lot of dust and gas.'

'OK, who stuck that wedding confetti star on it?'

'Millions of billions of trillions of light years away? I could visualise it if you said it in MILES!'

Entry level astronomer...

The Moon Falls Out of the Sky.

'Watch this space.'

"Papi! There's a lunar eclipse tonight at 2:47 in the morning!"

At the space-time institute.

"That cloud looks like a sheep. I wonder what our Doctor Rorschach would make of that."

"Sometimes I come up here and think about the great meals I've eaten."

'You see, it works: We could make money in advertising!'