Starry Eyes

Starry Eyes is a male background Pegasus pony with a white coat, two-tone black mane and tail, gold eyes, and a cutie mark of a telescope. He is unnamed in the show, but he is named in merchandise.__TOC__
==Design==
Starry Eyes shares his design and sometimes eye color with Compass Star and "The Tenth Doctor / Doctor Whooves #3", shares his mane and tail style, cutie mark, and sometimes eye color with "Star Bright", shares his mane and tail style and sometimes eye color with Royal Pin and "Ponet", shares his mane and tail style with "Poppycock" and S02E26 Unnamed Unicorn Stallion #4, shares his tail style, cutie mark, and sometimes eye color with "Star Gazer", shares his tail style and sometimes eye color with Perfect Pace, "Raggedy Doctor", shares his tail style with "Emerald Beacon", "Infinity", Madden, S04E17 Unnamed Earth Stallion #4, and S04E19 Unnamed Earth Stallion #1, and sometimes shares his mane and/or tail style with "Earl Grey".
He is similar to Starry Eyed both in name and in telescope association.
==Depiction in the series==
===Season two===
 Starry Eyes first appears in the season two episode Hurricane Fluttershy. He is one of the Pegasi attending the meeting at the Golden Oaks Library for instructions to lift water up to Cloudsdale—though he is not seen taking part in any training or flying.
===Season three===
Starry Eyes makes a more prominent appearance in the season three episode Wonderbolts Academy, in which he is a Wonderbolts cadet among Rainbow Dash, Lightning Dust, and other Pegasi, and he is paired with Meadow Flower as her wingpony. At one point during training, Rainbow Dash and Lightning Dust fly past him and Meadow Flower on the obstacle course and cause them to spin out into the other cadets.
During the cloud-busting portion of cadet training, when Rainbow Dash and Lightning Dust's tornado causes Twilight Sparkle and her friends to fall to their doom, Starry Eyes rescues Applejack. He is last seen saluting to Rainbow Dash and following her lead.
===Season four===
Starry Eyes watches the goof-off between Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich, and he appears at the Rainbow Falls Traders Exchange in Trade Ya!, purchasing an oatburger.
===Season six===
In The Cart Before the Ponies, Starry Eyes appears as a background character spectating the first Ponyville Applewood Derby during Derby Racers. In Top Bolt, he makes another background appearance at the Wonderbolt Academy.
===Season seven===
In A Flurry of Emotions, Starry Eyes appears attending Spearhead's pop-up art show at the Ponyville Café. In Rock Solid Friendship, he makes a background appearance standing at a honey stand at the Ponyville marketplace. In Forever Filly, the Cutie Mark Crusaders pass by him while riding down a hill on a large stone block, accidentally giving him an afro, which he appears to like. In Parental Glideance, he attends a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Canterlot hosted by the Wonderbolts. In A Royal Problem, he makes a background appearance in Canterlot among many ponies with uneasy facial expression watching Princess Luna awkwardly ride on a chariot while performing Princess Celestia's royal duties.
===Season eight===
In The Break Up Break Down, Starry Eyes is seen twice with "Cotton Sky" during Hearts and Hooves Day when Spike and Discord stroll through Ponyville during both the daytime and at night.
===Best Gift Ever===
In the special My Little Pony Best Gift Ever, Starry Eyes appears in the crowd of ponies at the Rainbow Falls Hearth's Warming Craft Fair at Flim and Flam' stand, eager to buy a Holly the Hearth's Warmer toy. When Applejack and Fluttershy convince the crowd to "put more thought into getting the right gift for each pony", he and the crowd chase the brothers out of Rainbow Falls.
===Season nine===
Starry Eyes spectates Quibble Pants play an exhibition game of buckball against Team Ponyville in Common Ground during a buckball tournament in Appleloosa, and cheers for Ponyville when Quibble Pants scores against his own team. In The Last Crusade, he attends the Cutie Mark Crusader Appreciation Day in front of Ponyville Town Hall, sporting an afro. In Between Dark and Dawn, he faints while flying upon noticing Princess Celestia and Princess Luna hiking outside Canterlot. In A Horse Shoe-In, he appears in the audience for Octavia Melody's Concert with DJ Pon-3.
===Appearances===
Times are approximate.
Season two	Season two
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22 	2:40 ~ 3:34 - inside the Golden Oak Library
Duplicates: one at 3:15 and 3:30
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26 	None
Season three	Season three
1 	None
2 	None
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7 	2:28 - standing with Wild Fire and Pizzelle; 2:53 ~ 3:11, 4:02, 4:07, 10:08 ~ 10:48, 13:38, 13:57 - in line with other Wonderbolts cadets; 4:12 - flying around the cadet training course; 5:53 ~ 7:43, 8:36 - with cadets near the Dizzitron; 8:19 - standing next to Meadow Flower; 8:45 ~ 9:04 - looking at the leadpony/wingpony listing; 10:53 - flying through flag-collecting course; 13:34, 14:01 - flying next to Meadow Flower; 14:04 ~ 15:00 - flying through the obstacle course; 16:06 ~ 16:15, 16:41 - busting clouds with other Pegasi; 17:37 - watching Rainbow Dash's friends fall to their doom; 17:57, 18:05 - saving Applejack; 18:28 ~ 18:45 - listening to Lightning Dust and Rainbow Dash; 21:14 ~ 21:21 - saluting to and flying off with Rainbow Dash
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13 	None
Season four	Season four
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2 	None
3 	None
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8 	None
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11 	None
12 	13:29, 13:40, 14:01 - watching Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich's goof-off
Duplicates: one at 14:01
13 	None
14 	None
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16 	None
17 	None
18 	None
19 	None
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21 	None
22 	11:05 - in the background next to Caramel; 13:29, 13:57, 14:05 - in line to buy oat burgers; 14:10 - buying an oat burger
23 	None
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26 	None
Season six	Season six
1 	None
2 	None
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5 	None
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8 	None
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11 	None
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13 	None
14 	16:17 - watching the Applewood Derby
15 	None
16 	None
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22 	None
23 	None
24 	1:46 - in establishing shot of Wonderbolt Academy
25 	None
26 	None
Season seven	Season seven
1 	None
2 	None
3 	7:17 - looking at a painting
4 	9:46 - at the honey stand in Ponyville market
5 	None
6 	4:46 - getting passed by the Cutie Mark Crusaders
7 	10:50 - in the stands of the Wonderbolts arena; 13:59 - watching the Wonderbolts' ribbon-cutting ceremony
8 	None
9 	None
10 	10:16 - watching Princess Luna ride in Princess Celestia's carriage
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Season eight	Season eight
1 	None
2 	None
3 	None
4 	None
5 	None
6 	None
7 	None
8 	None
9 	None
10 	5:46 - flying with "Cotton Sky"; 20:32 - snuggling with "Cotton Sky"
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Season nine	Season nine
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6 	Yes
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12 	Yes
13 	Yes
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20 	Yes
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==Other depictions==
===Commercials===
Starry Eyes makes a cameo in the promo "Hub Network's Summer Anthem!"
===My Little Pony (mobile game)===
Starry Eyes is mentioned in Cotton Sky's bio. His bio states "Founder of the Ponyville Amateur Astronomers League. Ask him about his favorite constellations sometime!"
==Merchandise==
 Starry Eyes is named with a trademark symbol in a Hasbro toy release.
Starry Eyes appears with green eyes on page 67 of Little, Brown's My Little Pony Friendship is Magic official guidebook My Little Pony: The Elements of Harmony.
Starry Eyes was first named on his Enterplay collectible card game Canterlot Nights expansion set card #63 C, which shows him with gold eyes and gives him the description "Founder of the Ponyville Amateur Astronomers League, Starry Eyes is rarely seen far from his telescope."
Starry Eyes also appears on the fan-designed WeLoveFine T-shirt "Wonder Academy Sky High".
==Gallery==
==See also==
*Ponies with a similar name: Starry Eyed.
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