Astronomical instruments
Astronomical instruments and techniques.
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Meaning
Language
Themes and places
- ABRIXAS
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Broadband Imaging X-ray All-sky Survey
- ALEXIS
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Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors
- ANTF
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Australia Telescope National Facility (https://www.atnf.csiro.au/)
- AOT
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Alignment Optical Telescope
- ATA
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Allen Telescope Array
- ATCA
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Australian Telescope Compact Array
- ATM
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Apollo Telescope Mount
- AXAF
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Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility
- BAT
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Burst Alert Telescope
- BBXRT
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Broad Band X-Ray Telescope
- BBXRT
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Broadband X-Ray Telescope
- BCFHT
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Bulletin d’information du téléscope Canada-France-Hawaii
- CDSC
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Coupling-Display Scanning-Telescope Manual Control
- COSTAR
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Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement
- CRISTA
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Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometer Telescope for Atmosphere
- EGRET
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Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope
- EGRET
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Energetic Gamma Ray Explorer Telescope
- ELT
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Extremely Large Telescope
- EUVE
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Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
The abbreviation EUVE (Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer) includes abbreviations EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) and UV (Ultraviolet).
- FOS
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Faint Object Spectrograph
- FTT
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Field Test Telescope
- FUSE
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Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
- GHRS
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Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph
- GLAST
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Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
- HST
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Hubble Space Telescope
- HUT
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Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope
- IACT
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Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope
- ISO
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Infrared Space Observatory
- ITU
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Infrared Telescope Unit
- IUE
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International Ultraviolet Explorer
- LAIRT
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Large-Aperture Infrared Telescope
- LST
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Large Space Telescope
- LST
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Large Stellar Telescope
- MAGIC
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Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov Telescope
- MED
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Mayall Engineering Database
- MITTS
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Mobile IGOR Tracking Telescope System
- NuSTAR
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Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
- OTA
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Optical Telescope Assembly
- RXTE
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Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer
- S&T
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Sky and Telescope
- SIRTF
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Space Infrared Telescope Facility
- SIRTF
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Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility
- SIXA
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Silicon X-Ray Array
- SOT
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Solar Optical Telescope
- SPIRIT
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Spatial Infrared Telescope
- SPT
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South Pole Telescope (https://pole.uchicago.edu/)
- ST
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Space Telescope
- STScI
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Space Telescope Science Institute (https://www.stsci.edu/)
- SUSIM
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Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor
- TAUVEX
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Tel Aviv University Ultraviolet Explorer
The abbreviation TAUVEX (Tel Aviv University Ultraviolet Explorer) includes the abbreviation UV (Ultraviolet).
- TETRA
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Terminal Tracking Telescope
- THEMIS
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Télescope Héliographique pour l’Étude du Magnétisme et des Instabilités
- TRE/ITU
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Teal Ruby Experiment/Infrared Telescope Unit
- UIT
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Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
- UT
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Unit Telescope
- UVAT
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Ultraviolet Automatic Tracker
The abbreviation UVAT (Ultraviolet Automatic Tracker) includes the abbreviation UV (Ultraviolet).
- VERITAS
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Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System
- VLT
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Very Large Telescope
- XEUS
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X-Ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy