AOA | Adaptive Optics Associates
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AHU | Air Handling Unit
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CBG | Coherent Bundle Guider
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CCAS | Center of Curvature Alignment System
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C-CAM | Cloud Camera or Chevo Camera
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DAS | Dome Automation System
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DIMM | Differential Image Motion Monitor
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DMI | Distance Measuring Interferometer
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EON | End Of Night
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FIF | Fiber Instrument Feed
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FIG | Fiber Instrument Guider
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GRoC | Global Radius of Curvature
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GTAG | George T. Abell (Visitor's) Gallery
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GUI | Graphical User Interface
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HEFI | Hartmann Extra-Focal Instrument
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HETDEX | HET Dark Energy Experiment
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HRS | High-Resolution Spectrograph
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HSC | High Speed Camera
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HZPF | Habitable Zone Planet Finder
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IFU | Integral Field Unit
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IRAF | Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
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J-CAM | J-band Camera
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KEF | Knife-Edge Focus
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KVM | Keyboard-Video-Mouse (for switching between remote computers)
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JLG | John L. Grove - The orange man lift normally parked inside the dome to the right of the door
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LOTO | Lockout/Tag out
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LRS | Low-Resolution Spectrograph
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MARS | Mirror Alignment Recovery System
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MCS | Master Control System
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MLM | Monolithic Lens let Module
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MOS | Multi-Object Spectrograph
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MRS | Medium Resolution Spectrograph
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NESSI | Near Earth Space Surveillance Initiative
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NOSS | Night Operations Software System
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NWD | Night Working Directory
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OCU | Operations Control Unit
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PDR | Preliminary Design Review
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PFIP | Prime Focus Instrument Platform
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PI | Primary Investigator
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PMC | Primary Mirror Control
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PMT | Photo Multiplier Tube
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RA | Resident Astronomer
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RMS | Root Mean Square (a statistical term)
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RSE | RMS Sensor Error
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SAMS | Segment Alignment Maintenance System
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SAO | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAOImage = software package to display images)
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SO/RO | Service Observer/ Resident Observer
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SPS | Segment Positioning System (obsolete)
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SCS | Segment Control System - replaced by SPS
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SWAG | Scientific Wild-Ass Guess, The temperature-at-sunset prediction in degrees Celsius.
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TCS | Telescope Control System
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TO | Telescope Operator
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Tss | Tracker sub-system
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TRSE | Target RMS Sensor Error
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T/T | Tip/Tilt Camera
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UER | Upper Electrical Room
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VIRUS | Visible Iintegral-field Replicable Unit Spectrograph
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VIRUS-P | Visible Iintegral-field Replicable Unit Spectrograph-Prototype
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VNC | Virtual Network Connection
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WFU | Wide-Field Unit
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WFS | Wave Front Sensor
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