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AAO |
Anglo-Australian Observatory |
ASP Conf Ser |
Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series |
Astron Astrophys |
Astronomy and Astrophysics Journal |
Astron Astrophys Suppl |
Astronomy and Astrophysics Journal Supplement Series |
Astron J |
Astronomical Journal |
Astron Soc Pac Conf Ser |
Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series |
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) |
AUTOFIB |
Autofib Fibre Positioner |
AF2 |
Autofib Fibre Positioner |
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) for Astrophysics |
CfA |
Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics |
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 |
ESA |
European Space Agency |
ESTEC |
European Space Technology Centre |
Fib |
AUTOFIB fibre positioner |
FOS |
Faint Object Spectrograph |
FWHM |
Full Width Half Maximum |
GHRIL |
Ground Based High Resolution Imaging Laboratory |
GRACE |
GRound based Adaptive optics Controlled Environment |
HST |
Hubble Space Telescope |
IAA |
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía |
IAC |
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias |
IAU |
International Astronomical Union |
IAU Circ |
IAU Circular |
IAUNAM |
Instituto de Astronomía de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México, Mexico |
IC |
Imperial College |
ICS |
Instrument Control System |
ICSTM |
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine |
IDS |
Intermediate Dispersion Spectrograph |
IFCA |
Instituto de Física de Cantabria |
IMAFF |
Instituto de Matemáticas y Física Fundamental, Madrid |
INAOE |
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica,
Mexico |
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Inf Bull Variable Stars |
Information Bulletin on Variable Stars |
ING |
Isaac Newton Group |
ING Newsl |
ING Newsletter |
INGRID |
ING Red Imaging Device |
Int Astron Union Symp |
International Astronomical Union Symposium |
INT |
Isaac Newton Telescope |
INTEGRAL |
Integral field fibre feed for WYFFOS |
IoA |
Institute of Astronomy |
IR |
Infrared |
Irish Astron J |
Irish Astronomical Journal |
ISIS |
ISIS double spectrograph |
ITP |
International Time Programme |
JAG |
JKT Acquisition and Guiding Unit |
JKT |
Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope |
JOSE |
Joint Observatories Seeing Evaluation programme |
JSC |
Joint Steering Committee |
LAEFF |
Laboratory for Space Astrophysics and Fundamental Physics |
LDSS |
Low Dispersion Survey Spectrograph |
LIRIS |
Long-Slit Intermediate-Resolution Infrared Spectrograph |
LJMU |
Liverpool John Moores University |
MARTINI |
Multi-Aperture Real Time Image Normalisation Instrument |
MCCD |
Mosaic CCD camera or National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
camera |
MES |
Manchester Echelle Spectrograph |
Mem Soc Astron Ital |
Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana |
MNRAS |
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
MOMI |
Manchester Occulting Mask Imager |
MPIA |
Max Planck Institute of Astrophysics |
MSSL |
Mullard Space Science Laboratory |
MSSSO |
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories |
Musicos |
Multi-SIte COntinuous Spectroscopy (fibre spectrograph on the INT) |
NAOMI |
Natural guide star Adaptive Optics system for Multiple-Purpose Instrumentation |
NBST |
National Board of Science and Technology of Ireland |
New Astron |
New Astronomy Journal |
New Astron Rev |
New Astronomy Review |
NRAL |
National Radio Astronomy Laboratory |
NWO |
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek |
OAN |
Observatorio Astronómico Nacional |
OASIS |
OASIS Integral Field Spectrograph |
OAT |
Observatorio Astronomico de Trieste |
ORM |
Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos (Roque de los Muchachos
Observatory) |
OSCA |
OSCA Coronograph |
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 |
PFIP |
WHT´s Prime Focus Imaging Camera |
Planet Space Sci |
Planetary and Space Science Journal |
PN.S |
Planetary Nebula Spectrograph |
PP |
People’s Photometer |
PPARC |
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council |
Proc |
Proceedings |
QMW |
Queen Mary and Westfield College |
QUB |
Queen’s University Belfast |
RBS |
Richardson-Brealy Spectrograph |
Rev Mex Astron Astrof |
Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica |
Rev Mex Astron Astrof Conf Ser |
Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica Series
de Conferencias |
RGO |
Royal Greenwich Observatory |
RAL |
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
SAURON |
Spectrographic Areal Unit for Research on Optical Nebulae |
S-Cam |
Super-conducting Tunnel Junction Camera |
Space Sci Rev |
Space Science Reviews |
SPIE |
Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers |
STScI |
Space Telescope Science Institute |
TAC |
Time Allocation Committee |
TAG |
Time Allocation Group |
TAURUS |
TAURUS Fabry-Perot spectrograph or imager |
TCS |
Telescope Control System |
TNG |
Telescopio Nazionale Galileo |
TRIFFID |
Galway/DIAS Image Sharpening Camera |
UCL |
University College London |
UCLAN |
University of Central Lancashire |
UCM |
Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
UES |
Utrecht Echelle Spectrograph |
UKIRT |
United Kingdom Infrared Telescope |
ULTRACAM |
Ultra-fast, triple-beam CCD camera |
WHIRCAM |
William Herschel Infrared Camera |
WFC |
Wide Field Camera |
WFS |
Wide Field Surveys with the WFC |
WHT |
William Herschel Telescope |
WYFFOS |
Wide Field Fibre Optics Spectrograph |
ZAMS |
Zero-Age Main Sequence |