Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer — The gas giant Uranus showing cloud bands, rings, and moons of the Uranian system, taken with NICMOS in 1998 … Wikipedia
Advanced Camera for Surveys — The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) is a third generation axial instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The initial design and scientific capabilities of ACS were defined by a team based at Johns Hopkins University. ACS was… … Wikipedia
Wide Field and Planetary Camera — The Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WFPC) (pronounced as wiffpick) was a camera installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. It was one of the instruments on Hubble at launch, but its functionality was severely impaired by the defects of the main mirror … Wikipedia
Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 — The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is a camera installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. It was installed by servicing mission 1 (STS 61) in 1993, replacing the telescope s original Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WF/PC). It was used… … Wikipedia
Wide Field Camera 3 — The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) will be the Hubble Space Telescope s (Hubble) last and most technologically advanced instrument to take images in the visible spectrum. It is scheduled to be installed in 2008 during STS 125. STS 125 is currently… … Wikipedia
Camera — For other uses, see Camera (disambiguation). Various cameras A camera is a device that records and stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the camera obscura… … Wikipedia
Video camera tube — In older video cameras, before the mid to late 1980s, a video camera tube or pickup tube was used instead of a charge coupled device (CCD) for converting an optical image into an electrical signal. Several types were in use from the 1930s to the… … Wikipedia
Near-Earth object — Asteroid 4179 Toutatis is a potentially hazardous object that has passed within 2.3 lunar distances … Wikipedia
Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search — (LONEOS) was a project designed to discover asteroids and comets that orbit near the Earth. The project, funded by NASA, was directed by Dr. Ted Bowell of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. The LONEOS project began in 1993 and ran until… … Wikipedia
List of astronomy acronyms — This is a compilation of acronyms commonly used in astronomy. Most of the acronyms are drawn from professional astronomy and are used quite frequently in scientific publications. However, a few of these acronyms are frequently used by the general … Wikipedia
