ACIS
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AXAF CCD Imaging Spectrometer
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ACS
|
Advanced Camera for Surveys
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APT
|
Astronomer’s Proposal Tools
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AR
|
Archival Research
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ATP
|
Astrophysics Theory Program
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AURA
|
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.
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CADC
|
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
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CCD
|
Charge-Coupled Device
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CoI
|
Co-Investigator
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CPAR
|
Coordinated Parallel Observation
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CS
|
Contact Scientist
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CVZ
|
Continuous Viewing Zone
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CXC
|
Chandra X-ray Center
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DD
|
Director’s Discretionary
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DEC
|
Declination
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DUP
|
Duplicate Observation
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EDT
|
Eastern (U.S.) Daylight-savings Time
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EST
|
Eastern (U.S.) Standard Time
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E/PO
|
Education/Public Outreach
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ESA
|
European Space Agency
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EST
|
Eastern (U.S.) Standard Time
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FGS
|
Fine Guidance Sensor(s)
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FTP
|
File Transfer Protocol
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FUV
|
Far Ultraviolet
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GO
|
General Observer
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GSFC
|
Goddard Space Flight Center
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GTO
|
Guaranteed Time Observer
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HDF
|
Hubble Deep Field
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HET
|
Hobby-Eberly Telescope
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HOPR
|
Hubble Observation Problem Report
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HRC
|
High Resolution Channel (on ACS) or High Resolution Camera (on Chandra)
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HST
|
Hubble Space Telescope
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HTML
|
Hyper Text Markup Language
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IDEAS
|
Initiative to Develop Education through Astronomy and Space Science
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IR
|
Infrared
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LOW
|
Low Sky Background
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MAMA
|
Multi-Anode Microchannel Array
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MAST
|
Multi-mission Archive at Space Telescope
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MMT
|
Multiple Mirror Telescope
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NASA
|
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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NICMOS
|
Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer
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NOAO
|
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
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NUV
|
Near Ultraviolet
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NVO
|
National Virtual Observatory
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OS
|
Observation Summary
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OSS
|
Office of Space Science
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PAEC
|
Planned and Archived Exposures Catalog
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PC
|
Planetary Camera or Program Coordinator
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PDF
|
Portable Document Format
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PI
|
Principal Investigator
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PPAR
|
Pure Parallel Observation
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RA
|
Right Ascension
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SAA
|
South Atlantic Anomaly
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SBC
|
Solar Blind Channel
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SHD
|
Shadow Time
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SIRTF
|
Space Infra-Red Telescope Facility
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SM
|
Servicing Mission
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SNAP
|
Snapshot
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STAC
|
Space Telescope Advisory Committee
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ST-ECF
|
Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility
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STIS
|
Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph
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STScI
|
Space Telescope Science Institute
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STSDAS
|
Space Telescope Science Data Analysis Software
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TAC
|
Telescope Allocation Committee
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TOO
|
Target of Opportunity
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U.S.
|
United States
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UTC
|
Coordinated Universal Time
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UV
|
Ultraviolet
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VTT
|
Visual Target Tuner
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WFC
|
Wide Field Camera (on WFPC2) or Wide Field Channel (on ACS)
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WF/PC
|
Wide Field and Planetary Camera 1
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WFPC2
|
Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2
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