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Gare, here's where the concept of 'melancholy' can be applied to the odd hobby of making whatever it is you make again ...

Amateur Planetariums are like the Curiosity Cabinets of yesteryear.  On display is a sense of MELANCHOLY, when artisanal handcrafted machines were the base of the wildest form of flight.  Limits and boundaries can be both realistic AND fictional, a quality oddly missing from the digital world of today.  Planetariums at home are conducive, in their ‘strange beast’ demeanor, to the wildest flights of imagination and adventure.  They break through the constraints of space, time, light and color.  They may appear to be headed for the abyss, but they go willingly and smiling.  

Taking flight, no matter the destination, is still taking flight after all.   And what indeed is melancholy but an unsolicited and sweet feeling of lost grandeur when as very young humans, we saw things for the first time as they really were, free from the constraints of definitions and metaphors.  It is in the revisiting of these things that a yearning, melancholic memory must indeed be Muse-sent.