Astron Astrophys |
Astronomy and Astrophysics Journal |
Astron Astrophys Suppl |
Astronomy and Astrophysics Journal
Supplement Series |
Astron J |
Astronomical Journal |
Astrophys J |
Astrophysical Journal |
Astrophys J Suppl |
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series |
Astrophys Space Science |
Astrophysics and Space Science Journal |
AU |
Astronomical Unit (1.496×108
km) |
Aux |
Auxiliary Port at the WHT Cassegrain
focus |
Bull Am Astron Soc |
Bulletin of the American Astronomical
Society |
Cass |
Cassegrain focus |
CAT |
Comité para la Asignación
de Tiempos (Spanish panel for the allocation of telescope time) |
CCD |
Charge-Coupled Device |
CCI |
Comité Científico Internacional
(International Scientific Committee) |
CIRSI |
Cambridge Infra Red Survey Instrument |
DAS |
Data Acquisition System |
DIAS |
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies |
DIMM |
Differential Image Motion Monitor |
ELECTRA |
Enhanced Light Efficiency Cophasing
Telescope Resolution Actuator |
Fib |
AUTOFIB fibre positioner |
FOS |
Faint Object Spectrograph |
FWHM |
Full Width Half Maximum |
GHRIL |
Ground Based High Resolution Imaging
Laboratory |
HST |
Hubble Space Telescope |
IAC |
Instituto de Astrofísica de
Canarias |
ICS |
Instrument Control System |
IDS |
Intermediate Dispersion Spectrograph |
ING |
Isaac Newton Group |
INGRID |
ING Red Imaging Device |
INT |
Isaac Newton Telescope |
INTEGRAL |
Integral field fibre feed for WYFFOS |
IR |
Infrared |
Irish Astron J |
Irish Astronomical Journal |
ISIS |
ISIS double spectrograph |
ITP |
International Time Programme |
JKT |
Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope |
JOSE |
Joint Observatories Seeing Evaluation
programme |
JSC |
Joint Steering Committee |
LDSS |
Low Dispersion Survey Spectrograph |
LIRIS |
Long-Slit Intermediate-Resolution Infrared
Spectrograph |
MARTINI |
Multi-Aperture Real Time Image Normalisation
Instrument |
Mem Soc Astron Ital |
Memorie della Società Astronomica
Italiana |
MNRAS |
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society |
NAOMI |
Natural guide star Adaptive Optics
system for Multiple-Purpose Instrumentation |
NBST |
National Board of Science and Technology
of Ireland |
NWO |
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk
Onderzoek |
ORM |
Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos
(Roque de los Muchachos Observatory) |
PASA |
Publications of the Astronomical Society
of Australia |
PASP |
Publications of the Astronomical Society
of the Pacific |
PATT |
Panel for the Allocation of Telescope
Time |
PF |
Prime Focus |
PFC |
Prime Focus Camera |
PP |
People's Photometer |
PPARC |
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research
Council |
RBS |
Richardson-Brealy Spectrograph |
RGO |
Royal Greenwich Observatory |
TAG |
Time Allocation Group |
TAURUS |
TAURUS Fabry-Perot spectrograph |
TCS |
Telescope Control System |
UES |
Utrecht Echelle Spectrograph |
UKIRT |
United Kingdom Infrared Telescope |
WHIRCAM |
William Herschel Infrared Camera |
WFC |
Wide Field Camera |
WHT |
William Herschel Telescope |
WYFFOS |
Wide Field Fibre Optics Spectrograph |
ZAMS |
Zero-Age Main Sequence |