stargaze

verb2

1. •
   To look at the stars at night.

   • It was a very clear night so I paused to stargaze until I got cold and went in.
2. •
   (figurative) To gaze engrossed with emotion or contemplatively.

   • Before books came into my life, I was given to stargazing and daydreaming. When books were given me, I fell upon them as a glutton pounces on his meat after a period of enforced starvation. — 1912