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 |