| ADC |
|
Analog-to-Digital Conversion |
| ADU |
|
Analog-to-Digital Units (see DN) |
| CCD |
|
Charge-Coupled Device |
| CEIS |
|
Contract End Item Specification |
| CVZ |
|
Continous Viewing Zone |
| DQE |
|
Detector Quantum Efficiency |
| DN |
|
Data Number (output of A-to-D converter) |
| EE |
|
Encircled Energy |
| FITS |
|
Flexible Image Transport System |
| FOC |
|
Faint Object Camera |
| GO |
|
General Observer |
| GSFC |
|
Goddard Space Flight Center |
| GTO |
|
Guaranteed-Time Observer |
| HST |
|
Hubble Space Telescope |
| ICD |
|
Interface Control Document |
| IDT |
|
Instrument Definition Team |
| ISR |
|
Instrument Science Report |
| JPL |
|
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| LEO |
|
Low Earth Orbit |
| mas |
|
milliarcsecond |
| MPP |
|
Multi-Pinned Phase |
| MTF |
|
Modulation Transfer Function |
| NICMOS |
|
Near-IR Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph |
| OTA |
|
Optical Telescope Assembly |
| PC |
|
Planetary Camera |
| PI |
|
Principal Investigator |
| PODPS |
|
Post Observation Data Processing System |
| PSF |
|
Point Spread Function |
| QEH |
|
Quantum Efficiency Hysteresis |
| RBI |
|
Residual Bulk Image |
| RMS |
|
Root Mean Square |
| SLTV |
|
System Level Thermal Vacuum Test |
| SMOV |
|
Servicing Mission Orbital Verification |
| SNR |
|
Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
| STAN |
|
Space Telescope [Data] Analysis Newsletter |
| STEIS |
|
Space Telescope Electronic Information Service |
| STIS |
|
Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph |
| STScI |
|
Space Telescope Science Institute |
| STSDAS |
|
Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System |
| TIPS |
|
Telescope and Instruments Performance Summary |
| UV |
|
Ultraviolet |
| WF/PC-1 |
|
Wide Field and Planetary Camera |
| WFC |
|
Wide Field Camera |
| WFPC2 |
|
Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 |
| WWW |
|
World Wide Web |
