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Updated on Mar.12, 2001 by K. Sugawara
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Abbreviations and acronyms frequently used in astronomy
Abbreviations and acronyms frequently used in astronomy
2MASS Two Micron All-Sky Survey
A&Ap Astronomy and Astrophysics
AA Acta Astronomica
AAA Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstract
AAA Amor, Apollo or Aten (object)
AAAA Asociacion Argentina Amigos de la Astronomia
AAO Anglo Australian Observatory
AAS American Astronomical Society
AAT Anglo Australian Telescope
AAVSO American Association of Variable Star Observers
ABRIXAS A BRoadband Imaging X-ray All-sky Survey
ACE Advanced Composition Explorer
ACIS Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer [Chandra]
ACM Asteroids, Comets and Meteors (conference)
ACRS Astrographic Catalogue Reference Stars
ADC Astronomical Data Center
ADF Astrophysics Data Facility
ADS Aitken Double Stars (catalogue)
AFGL Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
AFOEV Association Francaise des Observateurs d'Etoiles Variables
AG Astronomische Gesellschaft
AGAPE Andromeda Galaxy and Amplified Pixels Experiment
AGK Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog
AGN Active Galactic Nucleus
AJ Astronomical Journal
ALEXIS Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors
ALPO Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers
AMASE Astrophysics Multi-spectral Archive Search Engine
AMS American Meteor Society
AN Astronomische Nachrichten
ANEOPP Arcetri NEO Precovery Program
ANS Astronomical Netherlands Satellite
ANS Astro News Service
AO Adaptive Optics
ApJ Astrophysical Journal
APT Automated Patrol Telescope
ARC Ames Research Center
ARC Astrophysical Research Consortium
ARGOS Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite
ASA Astronomical Society of the Atlantic
ASP Astronomical Society of the Pacific
ATCA Australia Telescope Compact Array
AU Astronomical Unit
AUASS Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences
AURA Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy
AWCA American Workshops on Cometary Astronomy
AXAF Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility
BAA British Astronomical Association
BAC Bordeaux Astrographic Catalog
BACODINE BATSE COordinates DIstribution NEtwork
BAO Beijing Astronomical Observatory
BASIS Burst and All Sky Imaging Survey
BATSE Burst And Transient Source Experiment [CGRO]
BATTeRS Bisei Asteroid Tracking Telescopes for Rapid Survey
BAV Bundesdeutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft fuer Veraenderliche sterne
BBXRT Broad Band X-Ray Telescope
BCVS Bibliographic Catalogue of Variable Stars
BD Bonner Durchmusterung
BHXT Black Hole X-ray Transient
BIS British Interplanetary Society
BSG Blue SuperGiant
BSGC Bisei SpaceGuard Center
BSS Bigelow Sky Survey
CADC Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
CAPS CAssini Plasma Spectrometer [Cassini]
CARA California Association for Research in Astronomy
CARA Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica
CASS Center for Advanced Space Studies
CBAT Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
CCD Charge Coupled Device
CCNet Cambridge-Conference Network
CCO Catalogue of Cometary Orbits
CCS Cool Carbon Star
CD Cordoba Durchmusterung
CDIMP Catalogue of Discoveries and Identifications of Minor Planets
CEAMIG Centro de Estudos Astronomicos de MInas Gerais
CEPS Center for Earth and Planetary Studies
CERGA Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Geodynamiques et Astronomiques
CESR Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements
CfA Center for Astrophysics
CFHT Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
CFRS Canada-France Redshift Survey
CG Cometary Globule
CG Compact Galaxy
CGCS Cool Galactic Carbon Star
CGRO Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
CGSS general Catalogue of Galactic S Stars
CHARA Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy
CHR Corrected Hourly Rate
CIAO Coronagraphic Imager with Adaptive Optics [SUBARU]
CIDA Cometary Interplanetary Dust Analyzer [STARDUST]
CINEOS Campo Imperatore Near-Earth Object Survey
CIO Catalog of Infrared Observations
CISCO Cooled Infrared Spectrograph and Camera for OHS [SURABU]
CLICC/A Comet LIght Curve Catalogue/Atlas
CMBR Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
CMC Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue
CNES Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales
CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
CNSR Comet Nucleus Sample Return
COBE COsmic Background Explorer
COHSI Cambridge OH-Suppression Instrument
COMICS COoled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrometer [SUBARU]
COMPTEL COMPton TELescope [CGRO]
CONTOUR COmet Nucleus TOUR
COSPAR COmmittee on SPAce Reserach
COSTAR Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement [HST]
CPD Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
CRAF Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby
CRESTech Centre for Research in Earth and Space Technology
CRL Communications Research Laboratory
CSBN Committee for Small-Body Nomenclature
CSO Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
CSO Compact Symmetric Object
CSS Catalina Sky Survey
CSV Catalog of Suspected Variables
CTIO Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
CV Cataclysmic Variable
CXBR Cosmic X-ray Background Radiation
DANEOPS DLR-Archenhold Near-Earth Objects Precovery Survey
DAO Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
DC Degree of Condensation
DENIS DEep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern sky
DFRC Dryden Flight Research Center
DLR Deutsches zentrum fur Luft und Raumfahrt
DM DurchMusterung (code)
DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DN Dwarf Nova
DPOSS Digitized Palomar Observatory Sky Survey
EAMA East Asia Meeting on Astronomy
EARN European Asteroid Research Node
ECA Earth Crossing Asteroid
EGG Evaporating Gaseous Globule
EGRET Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope [CGRO]
EKBO Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt Object
ELAIS European Large Area ISO Survey
EMP Ehfemeridy Malykh Planet/Ephemerides of Minor Planets
ENACS ESO Nearby Abell Cluster Survey
EROS Experience de Recherche d'Objets Sombres
ESA European Space Agency
ESO European Southern Observatory
ESOC ESA's Satellite Operations Centre
ESP ESO Slice Project
ESTEC European Space research and TEchnology Centre
ET Ephemeris Time
EUNEASO EUropean NEA Search, follow-up and physical Observation programme
EUVE Extreme UltraViolet Explorer
FAME Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer
FASTT Flagstaff Astrometric Scanning Transit Telescope
FCC Fornax Cluster Catalog
FGS Fine Guidance Sensors [HST]
FINDS Foundation for the International Non-governmental Development
of Space
FIRST Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-centimeters
FIRST Far InfraRed and Submillimeter Space Telescope
FITS Flexible Image Transport System
FK Fundamental Catalogue
FLOAT Fibre-Linked Optical Array Telescope
FLWO Fred L. Whipple Observatory
FMO Fast Moving Object
FOC Faint Object Camera [HST]
FOCAS Faint Object Camera And Spectrograph [HST]
FOCAS Faint Object Camera And Spectrograph [SURABU]
FOS Faint Object Spectrograph [HST]
FOV Field-Of-View
FRED Fast Rise Exponential Decay
FSC (IRAS) Faint Source Catalogue
FUSE Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
FUVITA Far UltraViolet Imaging Telescope Array
FWHM Full Width at Half Maximum
FWZI Full Width at Zero Intensity
GAIA Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics
GASP Guide star Astrometric Support Package
GCN GRB Coordinates Network
GCR Galactic Cosmic Rays
GCVS General Catalogue of Variable Stars
GDS Great Dark Spot
GEM Galactic Emission Mapping project
GEM Galileo Europa Mission
GEM Giotto Extended Mission
GEODSS Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance
GHRS Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph [HST]
GIA Gruppo Italiano Astrometristi
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
GIMI Global Imaging Monitor of the Ionosphere [ARGOS]
GLAST Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
GMC Giant Molecular Cloud
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
GOES Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellite
GONG Global Oscillation Network Group
GPS Global Positioning System
GPS GHz-Peaked Spectrum
GRB Gamma-Ray Burst
GRO Gamma Ray Observatory
GROCSE Gamma Ray Burst Optical Counterparts Search Experiment
GRS Great Red Spot
GSC Guide Star Catalog
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
GSPC Guide Star Photometric Catalog
GST Greenwich Sidereal Time
GTC Gran Telescopio Canarias
GTO Geostationary Transfer Orbit
GX Galactic X-ray sources
HAC Harvard Announcement Card
HAL Hoshino hiroba Astro Letter
HALCA Highly Advanced Laboratory for Communications and Astronomy
HBV Hamburg-Bergedorf Variables
HCO Harvard College Observatory
HD Henry Draper (catalog)
HDE Henry Draper Extension
HDF Hubble Deep Field
HDS High Dispersion Spectrograph [SURABU]
HEAO High Energy Astrophysical Observatory
HEASARC High Energy Astrophysics Science Archival Research Center
HETE High Energy Transient Explorer
HH Herbig-Haro (object)
HIC Hipparcos Input Catalogue
HIPPARCOS HIgh Precision PARallax COllecting Satellite
HMC Halley Multicolor Camera [Giotto]
HR Hertzsprung-Russell (diagram)
HR Hourly Rate
HRD High Rate Detector [Cassini]
HRI High Resolution Imager [ROSAT]
HSP High Speed Photometer [HST]
HST Hubble Space Telescope
HV Harvard Variables (catalog)
IAA International Academy of Astronautics
IAC Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
IAF International Astronautical Federation
IAPPP International Amateur/Professional Photoelectric Photometry
IAS Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale
IAU International Astronomical Union
IAYC International Astronomical Youth Camp
IBVS Information Bulletin on Variable Stars
IC Index Catalogue
ICE International Comet Explorer
ICQ International Comet Quarterly
ICRF International Cerestial Reference Frame
ICRS International Celestial Reference System
IDA International Dark-Sky Association
IDS Index catalog of Double Stars
IEO Inner-Earth Object
IERS International Earth Rotation Service
IGM InterGalactic Medium
IGY International Geophysical Year
IHW International Halley Watch
ILOM In-situ Lunar Orientation Measurement
IMF Initial Mass Function
IMO International Meteor Organization
IMPACT International Monitoring Programs for Asteroid and Comet Threat
IMPS IRAS Minor Planet Survey
INAG Institut National d'Astronomie et de Geophysique
ING Isaac Newton Group of telescopes
INT Isaac Newton Telescope
INTEGRAL International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory
IOTA International Occultation Timing Association
IPAC Infrared Processing & Analysis Center
IQSY International Quiet Sun Year
IRAF Image Reduction and Analisys Facility
IRAM Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimetrique
IRAS InfraRed Astronomy Satellite
IRCS InfraRed Camera and Spectrograph [SURABU]
IRTF InfraRed Telescope Facility
ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
ISEE International Sun Earth Explorer
ISM InterStellar Medium
ISN International Supernovae Network
ISO Infrared Space Observatory
ISPM International Solar Polar Mission [Ulysses]
ISS International Space Station
ISSA Infrared Sky Survey Atlas
ISTeC International Small Telescope Cooperative
ITA Institute of Theoretical Astronomy
IUE International Ultraviolet Explorer
IUEDAC IUE satellite Data Analysis Center
IWCA International Workshop on Cometary Astronomy
IYAS International Year of the Active Sun
JAC Japan Astronomical Circular
JAPOA Japan Amateur Photoelectric Observers Association
JCMT James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
JD Julian Date
JET-X Joint European Telescope for X-ray astronomy
JKT Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JSC (Lyndson B.) Johnson Space Center
JSGA Japan SpaceGuard Association
JST Japanese Standard Time
KAIT Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope
KAO Kuiper Airborne Observatory
KBO Kuiper Belt Object
KCAO Kumamoto Civil Astronomical Observatory
KPNO Kitt Peak National Observatory
KSC Kennedy Space Center
KTB Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary
LAEFF Laboratorio de Astrofisica Espacial y Fisica Fundamental
LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory
LASCO Large Angle and Spectrometric COronagraph
LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LBN Lynds Bright Nebulae
LBNL Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
LBV Luminous Blue Variable
LCRS Las Campanas Redshift Survey
LDEF Long Duration Exposure Facility
LDN Lynds Dark Nebulae
LEST Large Earth-based Solar Telescope
LHEA Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics
LINEAR LIncoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
LISA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
LMC Large Magellanic Clouds
LMXB Low-Mass X-ray Binary
LONEOS Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search
LOSS Lick Observatory Supernova Search
LOTIS Livermore Optical Transient Imaging Sensor
LOTOSS Lick Observatory and Tenagra Observatory Supernova Searches
LPL Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
LST Local Sidereal Time
M Messier (catalogue)
MAC Multi instrument Aircraft Campaign
MACHO MAssive Compact Halo Object
MAP Microwave-background Anisotropy Probe
MASER Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
MBA Main Belt Asteroid
MCG Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies
MDS Medium Deep Survey
MEPCO Meeting of European Planetary and Cometary Observers
MGS Mars Global Surveyor
MICA Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac [USNO]
MISAO Multitudinous Image-based Sky-survey by Accumulative Observations
MJD Modified Julian Date
MMT Multiple Mirror Telescope
MNRAS Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
MOA Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics
MOID Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance
MOKA Mitaka Okayama Kiso data Archive system
MOST Microvariability and Oscillations of STars
MOST Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope
MOXE Monitoring X-ray Experiment
MPC Minor Planet Circulars/Minor Planets and Comets
MPEC Minor Planet Electronic Circulars
MPF Mars PathFinder
MPP Multi-Pinned-Phase
MPS Minor Planet circulars Supplement
MPS Microlensing Planet Search
MSFC Marshall Space Flight Center
MSSS Maui Space Surveillance Site
MSSSO Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories
MSX Midcourse Space EXperiment
MUSES MU Space Engineering Spacecraft
MX Massachusetts X-ray sources
MXB Massachusetts X-ray Bursters
NAMN North American Meteor Network
NAOJ National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
NAS Norsk Astronomisk Selskap
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASDA NAtional Space Development Agency of Japan
NDADS NASA's Data Archive and Distribution Service
NEA Near Earth Asteroid
NEAP Near Earth Asteroid Prospector
NEAR Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
NEAT Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking
NED NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
NEO Near Earth Object
NESS Near Earth Space Surveillance (satellite)
NGC New General Catalogue of nebulae and clusters of stars
NICMOS Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer [HST]
NIMS Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer [Galileo]
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAO National Optical Astronomy Observatories
NODO NASA Orbital Debris Observatory
NORAD NORth American aerospace Defense
NOT NOrdic Telescope
NPS North Polar Sequence
NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory
NRL Naval Research Laboratory
NSF National Science Foundation
NSSDC National Space Science Data Center
NSV New catalogue of Suspected Variable stars
NTT New Technology Telescope
OAA Oriental Astronomical Association
OAO Orbiting Astronomical Observatory
OCA Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur
ODAS OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey
OGLE Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
OHP Observatoire de Haute-Provence
OHS OH airglow Supressor Spectrograph [SURABU]
ORFEUS Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer
OSETI Optical SETI
OSO Onsala Space Observatory
OSSE Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment [CGRO]
OTA Optical Telescope Assembly [HST]
OWL Orbiting Wide-angle Light collectors
PA Position Angle
PASJ Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
PASP Publications of the Astronomical Society of Pacific
PASS Prometheus All Sky Survey
PCAS Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey
PEP PhotoElectric Photometry
PEPE Plasma Experiment for Planetary Exploration [Deep Space 1]
PHA Potentially Hazardous Asteroid
PIECE Planetary Impact Events and their Consequences on Earth
PK Perek-Kohoutek (catalog)
PLANET Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork
PLS Palomar-Leiden Survey
PMM Precision Measuring Machine
POSS Palomar Observatory Sky Survey
POSSE Palomar Outer Solar System Ecliptic survey
POST POrtable Submillimeter Telescope
PPARC Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
PPM (Catalogue of) Positions and Proper Motions
PPN Proto-Planetary Nebula
PROBLICOM PROjection BLInk COMparator
PSC (IRAS) Point Source Catalog
PSF Point Spread Function
PSR PulSaR
PVO Pioneer Venus Orbiter
PZT Photographic Zenith Tube
QE Quantum Efficiency
QPO Quasi-Periodic Oscillation
QSO Quasi-Stellar Object
QUEST QUasar Equatorial Survey Team
RA Right Ascension
RAS Royal Astronomical Society
RASC Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
RASS ROSAT All Sky Survey
RC Ritchey Chretien (telescope)
RGO Royal Greenwich Observatory
RNGC Revised NGC
RORF Radio Optical Reference Frame
ROSAT ROntgenSATellit
ROTSE Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment
RP Radiant Point
RSG Red SuperGiant
RXTE Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
S&T Sky & Telescope
SAAO South African Astronomical Observatory
SAFE Stars Are For Everyone
SAGA Solar Array Gain Augmentation [HST]
SALT Southern African Large Telescope
SAO Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
SAOC SAO Catalog
SARS Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers
SBIG Santa Barbara Instrument Group
SBNC Small Bodies Names Committee
SCP Supernova Cosmology Project
SCT Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope
SDSS Sloan Digital Sky Survey
SERC Science and Engineering Research Council
SEST Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope
SETI Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence
SGF SpaceGuard Foundation
SGR Soft Gamma ray Repeater
SIDC Sunspot Index Data Center
SIMBAD Set of Identifications, Measurements and Bibliography for
Astronomical Data
SMC Small Magellanic Clouds
SMM Solar Maximum Mission
SN SuperNova
SNC Shergottites, Nakhlites and Chassigny (meteorite)
SNR Signal to Noise Ratio
SNR SuperNova Remnant
SOARD Steward Observatory Asteroid Relational Database
SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy
SOHO SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory
SPAN Space Physics and Analysis Network
SPARTAN Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for AstroNomy
SPIRIT SPace InfraRed Imaging Telescope
SRC Science Research Council
SRON Space Research Organization of the Netherlands
SSI Solid-State Imager [Galileo]
STIS Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph [HST]
STScI Space Telescope Science Institute
SUPRIME-CAM SUbaru PRIME focus CAMera [SURABU]
SWAN Solar Wind ANisotropy (instrument) [SOHO]
SwRI Southwest Research Institute
TAC Twin Astrograph Catalog
TAI International Atomic Time
TAROT Action Rapide pour les Objets Transitoires
TASS The Amateur Sky Survey
TASV The Astronomer Suspected Variable
TAUVEX Tel Aviv UltraViolet Experiment
TAV The Astronomer Variable
TDB Barycentric Dynamical Time
TDRSS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
TDT Terrestrial Dynamical Time
THAPA Treasure-Hunting in Astronomical Plate Archives
TIC Tycho Input Catalogue
TIE Telescopes In Education
TLP Transient Lunar Phenomenon
TMS Two-Micron Sky Survey
TNO Trans-Neptunian Object
TRACE Transition Region And Coronal Explorer
TT Terrestrial dynamical Time
UCAC USNO CCD Astrometric Catalog
UCAS U.K.Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey
UCW Ulysses Comet Watch
UESAC Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets
UGC Uppsala General Catalogue of galaxies
UKIRT United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope
UKST United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope
UKSTU United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope Unit
USAF United States Air Force
USGS United States Geological Survey
USNO United States Naval Observatory
USNOFS USNO Flagstaff Station
UT Universal Time
UTC Coordinated Universal Time
VCC Virgo Cluster Catalog
VdS Vereinigung der Sternfreunde
VEEGA Venus-Earth-Earth Gravity Assist [Galileo]
VERA VLBI Exprolation of Radio Astrometry
VFMO Very Fast Moving Object
VLA Very Large Array
VLBA Very Long Baseline Array
VLBI Very Long Baseline Interferometry
VLT Very Large Telescope
VRM Venus Radar Mapper [Magellan]
VSOLJ Variable Star Observers' League in Japan
VSOP VLBI Space Observatory Program
VST VLT Survey Telescope
WD White Dwarf
WDS Washington Double Star (catalog)
WEBT Whole Earth Blazar Telescope
WET Whole Earth Telescope
WFPC Wide Field Planetary Camera [HST]
WGPSN Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
WHT William Herschel Telescope
WISARD Web Interface for Searching Archival Research Data
WIYN Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO (telescope)
XMM X-ray Multi-Mirror Spacecraft
YBSC Yale Bright Star Catalog
YC Yamamoto Circular
YGCO Yamaneko Group of Comet Observers
ZC Zodical Catalogue
ZHR Zenithal Hourly Rate
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AA Astronomical Almanac
AAT Anglo-Australian Telescope
AE Astronomical Ephemeris
APM Automatic Plate Measuring Machine
APT Automatic Photometric Telescope
CDA Centre de Donnees Astronomique
CGCG Catalogue of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies
COSMOS Coordinates,Size,Magnitudes,Orientation and Shape (automated photo
scan facility)
CSO Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
DE Development Ephemeris, JPL
DM Durchmusterung code
ELFIR Extremely Luminous Far-Infrared sources
FIRST Far-Infrared and Sub-millimeter Space Telescope
FK Fundamental Catalogue
GNAT Global Network of Automatic Telescope
GST Greenwich Sidereal Time
GUT Grand Unified Theory
ICRF International Celestial Reference Frame
INT Isaac Newton Telescope
IPCS Image Photon Counting System
IQSY International Years of the Quiet Sun
IRTF Infrared Telescope Facility
JILA Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics
JKT Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope
LDEF Long Duration Exposure Facility
LHA Local Hour Angle
MERLIN Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network
MKK Morgan, Keenan and Kellman classification
MRAO Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory
MSSL Mullard Space Science Laboratory
NLC noctilucent clouds
NOT Nordic Telescope
OSL Orbiting Solar Laboratory
OSO Orbiting Solar Observatory
PEP photoelectric photometry
RGO Royal Greenwich Observatory
RNGC Revised NGC
ROE Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
SAS Small Astronomy Satellite
SEST Swedish-ESO Submillimeter Telescope
SIMBAD Set of Identifications, Measurements and Bibliography for
Astronomical Data
SIRTF Space Infrared Telescope Facility
SLR satellite laser ranging
TAI International Atomic Time
TDB Barycentric Dynamical Time
VLA Very Large Array (at New Mexico)
WLD Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte galaxy
YBS Yale Bright Star Catalog