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Old 15-08-2009, 07:58 PM
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F
FIR
.......Far Infra-Red
FITS
......Flexible Image Transport System (Image data)
FL
........Focal Length
FOV
.......Field Of View
FR
........Focal Reducer
FSQ
.......? (Takahashi Brand)
FWIW
......For What It's Worth

G
GEM
.......German Equatorial Mount
GMT
.......Greenwich Mean Time
GPS
.......Global Positioning System
GRB
.......Gamma Ray Burst
GRS
.......Great Red Spot (Jupiter)
GSO
.......Guan Sheng Optical (Brand)

H
Ha
........Hydrogen-Alpha
HDR
.......High Dynamic Range (Photography)
HPS
.......High-Pressure Sodium(street lights)
HST
.......Hubble Space Telescope

I
IAU
.......International Astronomical Union
IC
........Index Catalogue
ICNR
..... In Camera Noise Reduction
IIS
.......Ice In Space (You Are Here!)
IMO
.......In My opinion
IR
........Infra-Red
ISO
.......International Standards Organisation (Camera sensitivity/Film speed)
ISS
.......International Space Station

J
JMI
.......Jim's Mobile Inc. (Brand)
JPEG
......Joint Photographic Experts Group
JPL
.......Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA)

L
L
.........Luminance
LASER
.....Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LINEAR
....LIncoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (Satellite)
LM........Lunar Module
LMC
.......Large Magellanic Cloud
LP
........Light Pollution
LPI
.......Lunar Planetary Imager (Meade brand)
LPR
.......Light Polution Reduction (Filter)
LPS
.......Low-Pressure Sodium(street lights)
LRGB
......Luminance, Red, Green, Blue (Filters)
LRO.......Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (satellite)
LUM.......Luminance

M
MAPUG
.....Meade Advanced Products Users Group
MN
........Mak-Newt
MPCC
......Multi-Purpose Coma Corrector
MRO.......Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (satellite)

N
NASA
......National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NB
........Narrow Band
NEAF
......NorthEast Astronomy Forum (Astro convention)
NEAT
......Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (Satellite)
NEB
.......North Equatorial Belt
NEWT
......NEWTonian (Telescope)
NG
........North Group (Brand)
NGC
.......New General Catalogue
NGT
.......Next Generation Telescope (JMI brand)
NOAA
......National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NR
........Noise Reduction

O
OAG.......Off-Axis Guider
OIII
......Oxygen-3 (Filter)
OP
........Original Poster (Forums)
OPT.......Ocean Photo & Telescope (US Retailer)
OS
........Operating System .... or....
OS
........OverSeas
OSC
.......One-Shot Colour (Camera)
OSD
.......On Screen Display
OTA
.......Optical Tube Assembly

P
PC
........Personal Computer
PE........Periodic Error
PEC
.......Periodic Error Correction
PHD
.......Push Here Dummy (Guiding Software)
PM
........Private Message
PME.......Paramount ME (Brand)
PN
........Planetary Nebula
POTN
......Photography On The Net (Website)
PS
........PhotoShop (software)
PS........Post Script (eg: PS: blah blah blah)
PST
.......Personal Solar Telescope (Coronado brand)

Q
QHY
.......? Camera (Brand)
QSI
.......Quantum Scientific Imaging inc.(Brand)

R
RA
........Right Ascension .. or ..
RA
........Radio Astronomy
RC
........Ritchey-Chrétien (Telescope)
RCOS
......Ritchey-Chrétien Optical Systems (Brand)
RFT
.......Rich(est) Field Telescope
RGB
.......Red, Green, Blue (Filters)
RMS
.......Root Mean Squared
ROR
.......Roll-Off-Roof (Observatory)

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