| ACRONYM |
Alphabetic Co-location for Reducing Or
Numbing Your Memory |
| CCAS |
Center of Curvature Alignment Sensor |
| DAS |
Dome Automation System |
| DIMM |
Differential Image Motion Monitor |
| DIQ |
Delivered Image Quality |
| DMI |
Distance Measuring Interferometer |
| DVS |
Dome Ventilation System |
| EE50/80 |
Encircled Energy 50% and 80% |
| ET |
Exoplanets Tracker |
| FIF |
Fiber Instrument Feed |
| FOV |
Field of View |
| GRB |
Gamma Ray Burst |
| GRoC |
Global Radius of Curvature |
| GTAG |
George T. Abell Visitors Gallery |
| HEFI |
Hartmann Extra Focal Instrument |
| HETDEX |
Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment |
| HET |
Hobby-Eberly Telescope |
| HRJ(H)CAM |
High Resolution J(H)-Band Camera |
| HRS |
High Resolution Spectrograph |
| IQ |
Image Quality |
| JCAM |
J-Band Camera |
| LAE |
Lyman Alpha Emitters |
| LF |
Luminosity Function |
| LRS |
Low Resolution Spectrograph |
| LRS-J |
Low Resolution Spectrograph J-band |
| MARS |
Mirror Alignment Recovery System |
| MCS |
Master Computer System |
| MLA |
Multi Lenslet Array |
| MONET |
Monitoring Network of Telescopes |
| MRS |
Medium Resolution Spectrograph |
| MOS |
Multi Object Spectrograph |
| NESSI |
Near Earth Space Surveillance
Initiative |
| PFIP |
Prime Focus Instrument Platform |
| PMAC |
Programmable Multi-Axis Controller |
| PMC |
Primary Mirror Computer |
| RA |
Resident Astronomer |
| ROM |
Rough Order of Magnitude |
| RSE |
Rms Sensor Error |
| RTML |
Remote Telescope Markup Language |
| RWVS |
Ring Wall Ventilation System |
| SAC |
Spherical Aberration Corrector |
| SALT |
Southern African Large Telescope |
| SAMS |
Segment Alignment Maintenance System |
| SCS |
Segment Control Server |
| SCT |
Science Commissioning Team |
| SPS |
Segment Positioning System |
| SSAC |
Surrogate Spherical Aberration Corrector |
| SWAG |
Super Wild Ass Guess |
| TBD |
To Be Determined |
| TBR |
To Be Resolved |
| TCS |
Telescope Control System |
| TLA |
Three Letter Acronym |
| TO |
Telescope Operator |
| TOO |
Target Of Opportunity |
| TSS |
Tracker Sub System |
| TTCAM |
Tip Tilt CAMera |
| UFOE |
Upgraded Fiber Optic Echelle |
| VIRUS |
VIsible Replicable Ultra-cheap Spectrograph |
| VIRUS |
Visible Integrable-field Replicable Unit Spectrograph |
| WAG |
Wild Ass Guess |
| WFU |
Wide Field Upgrade |
| XML |
eXtensible Markup Language |
