astronomy
951 abbreviations
Abbreviation | Meaning | |
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EVN | (organization) European VLBI Network | |
EW | (celestial object) Eclipsing W Ursa Majoris, a class of eclipsing binary stars named after W Ursa Majoris, the archetype for the class | |
FAME | (telescope) Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer | |
FASTT | (telescope) Flagstaff Astrometric Scanning Transit Telescope | |
FCC | (catalog) Fornax Cluster Catalog, a catalog of galaxies in the Fornax Cluster | |
FEB | (celestial object) Falling-Evaporating Body, a solid planetary object that is being evaporated by the stellar wind | |
FGS | (instrumentation) Fine Guidance Sensors, an instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope | |
FHST | (instrumentation) Fixed Head Star Trackers, an instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope | |
FIR | (astrophysics terminology) Far InfraRed | |
FIRAS | (Instrumentation) Far-InfraRed Absolute Spectrophotometer | |
FIRST | (observing program) Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-centimeters, a radio survey of the sky with the Very Large Array | |
FIRST | (telescope) Far InfraRed and Submillimeter Space Telescope, an older name for the Herschel Space Observatory | |
FITS | (software) Flexible Image Transport System, the format commonly used for scientific astronomy images | |
FLAMES | (instrumentation) Fibre Large Array Multi Element Spectrograph, instrument on the VLT | |
FLOAT | (telescope) Fibre-Linked Optical Array Telescope | |
FLWO | (telescope) Fred L. Whipple Observatory | |
FMO | (celestial object) Fast Moving Object, an asteroid so close to the Earth that it appears to be moving very fast | |
FOC | (instrumentation) Faint Object Camera, a camera formerly on the Hubble Space Telescope | |
FOCAS | (instrumentation) Faint Object Camera And Spectrograph, an instrument for the Subaru Telescope | |
FOS | (instrumentation) Faint Object Spectrograph, a spectrometer formerly on the Hubble Space Telescope | |
FOV | (instrumentation) Field Of View | |
FRED | (astrophysics terminology) Fast Rise Exponential Decay, the variations in the luminosity of gamma ray bursts over time | |
FSC | (catalog) Faint Source Catalogue, one of the catalogs produced using Infrared Astronomical Satellite data | |
FTL | (astrophysics terminology) Faster Than Light | |
FUOR | (celestial object) FU Orionis objects, a class of variable pre-main sequence stars named after FU Orionis, the archetype for the class | |
FUSE | (telescope) Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, an ultraviolet space telescope | |
FUVITA | (instrumentation) Far UltraViolet Imaging Telescope Array, an ultraviolet imager for the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma mission | |
FWHM | (instrumentation) Full Width at Half Maximum, a telescope resolution | |
FWZI | (instrumentation) Full Width at Zero Intensity, a telescopes resolution | |
G | (catalog) Giclas, a catalog of nearby stars | |
GAIA | (telescope) Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics, a planned space telescope that will be used to make high-precision measurements of stars | |
GALEX | (telescope) Galaxy Evolution Explorer, an ultraviolet space telescope | |
GASP | (software) Guide star Astrometric Support Package | |
GAT | (catalog) AO (Gatewood+), catalog of G. Gatewood's observations | |
GBT | (telescope) Green Bank Telescope | |
GC | (catalog) General Catalog, a catalog of clusters, nebulae, and galaxies created by John Herschel and now superseded by the New General Catalogue | |
GCAS | (celestial object) Gamma CASsiopeiae, a class of eruptive variable stars named after Gamma Cassiopeiae, the archetype for the class | |
GCMS | (instrumentation) Gas Chromatograph and Mass Spectrometer, an instrument on the Huygens probe | |
GCN | (organization) GRB Coordinates Network | |
GCR | (astrophysics terminology) Galactic Cosmic Rays | |
GCVS | (catalog) the General Catalog of Variable Stars | |
GD | (catalog) Giclas Dwarf, a catalog of white dwarf | |
GDS | (celestial object) Great Dark Spot, a transient feature in the clouds of Neptune | |
GEM | (observing program) Galactic Emission Mapping | |
GEM | (observing program) Galileo Europa Mission, the science observation program of Europa performed by the Galileo spacecraft | |
GEM | (observing program) Giotto Extended Mission, the extended operations of the Giotto spacecraft | |
GEMS | (organization) Group Evolution Multi-wavelength Study | |
GEMS | (survey) Galaxy Evolution from Morphology and Spectral energy distributions | |
GEMSS | (organization) Global Exoplanet M-dwarf Search-Survey, a search for exoplanets around m-dwarf stars | |
GEODDS | (telescope) Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance, a network of telescopes used in a United States Air Force program for observing space junk |