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8. ACRONYMS

A complete list of acronyms employed in this review is given in Table 27.

ADC: Astronomical Data Center
ADS: Astrophysics Data System
AEC: Archival Exposures Catalog
AR: Archival Research
AURA: Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.
CADC: Canadian Astronomical Data Center
CCD: Charge Coupled Device
CDBS: Calibration Data Base System
CDS: Centre des Données Stellaires
CEA: Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy
CFA: Center for Astrophysics
CFHT: Canada France Hawaii Telescope
COSTAR: Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement
CP: Call for Proposals
CTE: Charge Transfer Efficiency
CVZ: Continuous Viewing Zone
DADS: Data Archive and Distribution System
ESA: European Space Agency
ESO: European Southern Observatory
EUVE: Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
FGS: Fine Guidance Sensors
FITS: Flexible Image Transport System
FOC: Faint Object Camera
FOS: Faint Object Spectrograph
FOV: Field of View
GASP: Guide Star Selection System Astrometric Support Program
GEIS: Generic Edited Information Set
GHRS: Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph
GIMP: Geomagnetically-Induced Image Motion Problem
GO: General Observers
GSC: Guide Star Catalog
GSFC: Goddard Space Flight Center
GSSS: Guide Star Selection System
GTO: Guaranteed Time Observer
HDA: Hubble Data Archive
HSP: High Speed Photometer
HST: Hubble Space Telescope
IDT: Instrument Definition Team
IPAC: Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
IRAF: Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
IRAS: Infrared Astronomical Satellite
ISO: Infrared Astronomical Observatory
ISR: Instrument Science Report
IUE: International Ultraviolet Explorer
JPL: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
LEDA: Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database
LSA: Large Science Aperture
LSF: Line Spread Function
MAMA: Multi-Anode Microchannel Array
MJD: Modified Julian Date (JD-2400000.5)
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NOAO: National Optical Astronomical Observatory
NED: NASA Extragalactic Database
NICMOS: Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph
NSSDC: NASA Space Science Data Center
OFAD: Optical Field Angle Distortion
OIF: Old IRAF Format
OMS: Observatory Monitoring System
OPUS: OSS and PODPS Unified System
OSS: Observatory Support System
OTA: Optical Telescope Assembly
PC: Planetary Camera
PODPS: Post-Observation Data Processing System
PRESTO: Project to Re-Engineer Space Telescope Observing
PSF: Point Spread Function
QE: Quantum Efficiency
ROSAT: Röntgen Satellit
RPS(2): Remote Proposal Submission System (2)
RSDP: Routine Science Data Processing
SAA: South Atlantic Anomaly
SI: Scientific Instrument
SIMBAD: Set of Information, Measurements and Bibliography for Astronomical Data
SMOV: Servicing Mission Orbital Verification
SMS: Science Mission Specification
SPYBAL: SPectrum Y BALance
SSA: Small Science Aperture
ST-ECF: Space Telescope - European Coordination Facility
STAN: Space Telescope Analysis News
STEIS: Space Telescope Electronic Information System
STIS: Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph
STOCC: Space Telescope Operations Control Center
STScI: Space Telescope Science Institute
STSDAS: Space Telescope Science Data Analysis Software
TAC: Time Allocation Committee
TDRSS: Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
TIM: Telescope Image Modelling
URL: Universal Resource Locator
WFC: Wide Field Camera
WF/PC: Wide Field and Planetary Camera [1]
WFPC2: Wide Field Planetary Camera 2
WWW: World Wide Web

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