Optical instruments
Optical instruments and apparatus: lenses, magnifiers, microscopes, spectacles, telescopes, binoculars, etc.; fibre-optic devices.
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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
- AMOS
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Air Force Maui Optical System
- ANTF
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Australia Telescope National Facility (https://www.atnf.csiro.au/)
- AOS
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ACTS Optical System
- AOT
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Alignment Optical Telescope
- ApOpt
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Applied Optics
- 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
- BDY
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Burst Detector Optical Sensor
- BUOU
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Backup Optical Unit
- CDSC
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Coupling-Display Scanning-Telescope Manual Control
- CIRRIS
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Cryogenic Infrared Radiance Instrument(ation) for Shuttle
- CoRoT
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Convection, Rotation & planetary Transits
- CoRoT
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Convection, Rotation et Transits planétaires
= WFPC | Wide Field Planetary Camera | In English
- COSTAR
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Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement
- CRISTA
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Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometer Telescope for Atmosphere
- DIRV
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Dedicated Interferometer for Rapid Variability
- 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
- FiIO
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Fiber and Integrated Optics
- FO
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Fiber-Optic
The abbreviation FO (Fiber-Optic) is included in abbreviations such as FODS (Fiber-Optic Demonstration System), FOG (Fiber-Optic Gyro), FOGM (Fiber-Optic Guided Missile) and FOIRL (Fiber-Optic Inter-Repeater Link).
- FOC
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Faint Object Camera
- FODS
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Fiber-Optic Demonstration System
- FOG
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Fiber-Optic Gyro
- FOGM
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Fiber-Optic Guided Missile
The abbreviation FOGM (Fiber-Optic Guided Missile) includes the abbreviation GM (Guided Missile).
- FOIRL
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Fiber-Optic Inter-Repeater Link
- FORC
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Fiber Optics Research Center (www.fibopt.ru/eng/)
- FOS
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Faint Object Spectrograph
- FTT
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Field Test Telescope
- GHRS
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Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph
- GLAST
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Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
- HIRS
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High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
- 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
- IASI
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Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
- IRIS
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Infrared Instrumentation System
- ISO
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Infrared Space Observatory
- ITU
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Infrared Telescope Unit
- LAIRT
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Large-Aperture Infrared Telescope
- LOCS
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Local Optical Correction System
- 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
- MITTS
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Mobile IGOR Tracking Telescope System
- MMOS
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Multimode Optical Sensor
- MRIR
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Medium Resolution Infrared Radiometer
- NuSTAR
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Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
- OTA
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Optical Telescope Assembly
- PMIRR
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Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer
- 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
- SOQ
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System Optical Quality
- SOT
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Solar Optical Telescope
- SPIRIT
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Spatial Infrared Telescope
- ST
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Space Telescope
- STScI
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Space Telescope Science Institute (https://www.stsci.edu/)
- TETRA
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Terminal Tracking Telescope
- THEMIS
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Télescope Héliographique pour l’Étude du Magnétisme et des Instabilités
- THIR
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Temperature/Humidity Infrared Radiometer
- 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
- VERITAS
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Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System
- VISSR
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Visible/Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer
- VLT
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Very Large Telescope
- WFPC
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Wide Field Planetary Camera
= CoRoT, WFPC (see above)
- XEUS
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X-Ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy