#kspacademia — irc logs at esper.irclog.whitequark.org

2024-02-09

17:32 <raptop> !acr -add:IMRaD Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion (the most common layout for a scientific journal article)

2024-01-30

22:55 <raptop> !acr -add:MIRI Mid-InfraRed Instrument (a camera and spectrograph on JWST)

2023-12-27

23:24 <raptop> !acr -add:FGS Feline Grimace Scale (a measure of how much pain a cat is in)

2023-07-11

13:44 <raptop> !acr -add:CUTE Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (a 6U cubesat that does NUV spectroscopy)

2023-07-10

20:11 <raptop> !acr -add:LAPYUTA Life-environmentology, Astronomy, and PlanetarY Ultraviolet Telescope Assembly (blame JAXA)

2023-06-03

23:52 <egg|matrix|egg> !acr -add:ELP Éphéméride Lunaire Parisienne

2023-05-04

21:40 <raptop> !acr -add:ETOPS Extended-range Twin-engine Operations Performance Standards (alternatively: Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim)

2023-04-17

00:05 <raptop> !acr -add:ALOS Advanced Land Observing Satellite

2023-04-15

02:45 <raptop> !acr -add:STEM Shenanigans, Tomfoolery, Escapades, and Mischief (citation: https://twitter.com/itsianraymond/status/1643666741334265857)

2022-12-22

16:38 <raptop> !acr -add:MMOD Micrometeroid and Orbital Debris

2022-12-01

05:48 <raptop> !acr -add:CHAT Chilean Hungarian Automated Telescope

04:13 <raptop> !acr -add:CHAT Chilean HUngarian Automated Telescope

2022-10-03

17:47 <raptop> !acr -add:VFDF Very Fast Death Factor (Anatoxin-a)

00:20 <raptop> !acr -add:DESI Dark Energy Spectrographic Instrument

00:14 <egg|matrix|egg> !acr -add:SABRE Sodium-iodide with Active Background REjection

00:13 <egg|matrix|egg> !acr -add:ANAIS Annual modulation with NaI Scintillators

00:10 <egg|matrix|egg> !acr -add:SKA Square Kilometre Array

2022-05-26

03:18 <raptop> !acr -add:POKEMON Pervasive Overview of Kompanions of Every M-dwarf in Our Neighborhood

2022-05-23

15:09 <raptop> !acr -add:MARS Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (Wallops Island, VA)

2022-05-05

04:43 <raptop> !acr -add:USP Ultra-Short Period (typically a terrestrial, but sometimes a neptunian or even jovian planet with an orbital period of less than one day)

2022-05-04

04:04 <UmbralRaptop> !acr -add:TRES Tillinghast Reflector Echelle Spectrograph

2022-04-12

23:01 <raptop> !acr -add:TMMT Three-hundred MilliMeter Telescope

2022-03-11

20:43 <raptop> !acr -add:ISIS Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers

2022-01-31

23:18 <raptop> !acr -add:FAP False Alarm Probability

2022-01-15

03:39 <raptop> !acr -add:ATLAS Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System

2021-11-19

02:27 <raptop> !acr -add:VeSPA (SuperWASP) Variable Star Photometry Archive

02:23 <raptop> !acr -add:unWISE unofficial, unblurred coadds of the WISE imaging

2021-11-11

22:14 <SnoopJ> !acr -add:JACoW Joint Accelerator Conferences Website

2021-11-07

04:07 <raptop> !acr -add:IROUV raptop's shorthand for the ~6m IR/Optical/UV space telescope combining aspects of HabEx and LUVOIR that the 2020 decadal survey recommends as the top space based priority with a launch data of approximately 2045

03:38 <raptop> !acr -add:KAGARA Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector

2021-11-03

02:16 <galois> Invalid command. Valid forms: !acr -add:LMAO Lagrange Made Awesome Orbits, !acr -redef:ROFL Rare Occultations for Life, !acr -del:IEEE

02:15 <SnoopJ> !acr -add:FIRAS Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer

02:12 <raptop> !acr -add:CXRB Cosmic X-Ray Background

2021-10-02

20:27 <egg|laptop|egg_> !acr -add:GRAVES Grand Réseau Adapté à la Veille Spatiale

2021-09-27

15:07 <raptop> !acr -add:ApJL Astrophysical Journal Letters

15:07 <raptop> !acr -add:AJ Astronomical Journal

15:06 <raptop> !acr -add:ApJ Astrophysical Journal

15:06 <raptop> !acr -add:PASP Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

15:06 <raptop> !acr -add:AAS American Astronomical Society

15:06 <raptop> !acr -add:MNRAS Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

2021-09-24

20:27 <egg|laptop|egg_> !acr -add:UTS Unicode Technical Specification

2021-09-20

10:33 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:NA Neo-Assyrian

10:33 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:Neo-Assyrian

10:33 <galois> Invalid command. Valid forms: !acr -add:LMAO Lagrange Made Awesome Orbits, !acr -redef:ROFL Rare Occultations for Life, !acr -del:IEEE

10:32 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:OB Old Babylonian

2021-09-06

22:23 <raptop> !acr -add:MMT MMT (formerly Multiple Mirror Telescope, but the 6x 1.8 m telescopes were replaced by a single 6.5 m telescope in 1998)

22:22 <raptop> !acr -add:MMTO MMT Observatory

17:21 <raptop> !acr -add:HiCAT High-contrast imager for Complex Aperture Telescopes

2021-08-29

09:57 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:KIT Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

09:57 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:KSP KIT Scientific Publishing

2021-08-27

23:32 <raptop> !acr -add:JWST Supposedly "James Webb Space Telescope", but in practice "James Webb Surface Telescope"

22:53 <raptop> !acr -add:KPF Keck Planet Finder

2021-08-14

13:18 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:LRBA Laboratoire de Recherches Balistiques et Aérodynamiques

2021-08-09

21:21 <raptop> !acr -add:MHD MagnetoHydroDynamics https://xkcd.com/1851/

06:41 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:TIMED Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics

2021-08-04

15:18 <raptop> !acr -add:ATAPI ATA Packet Interface

2021-08-03

21:10 <raptop> !acr -add:HLIRG Hyper Luminous Infrared Galaxy

21:10 <raptop> !acr -add:ULIRG Ultra Luminous Infrared Galaxy

21:10 <raptop> !acr -add:LIRG Luminous Infrared Galaxy

2021-07-31

22:59 <raptop> !acr -add:HAZMAT HAbitable Zone M-star Activity across Time

00:50 <raptop> !acr -add:ANTARES Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environment RESearch

2021-07-28

22:48 <raptop> !acr -add:GTO Guaranteed Time Observations (a kind of telescope scheduling)

2021-07-16

18:31 <SnoopJ> !acr -add:VASIMR Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket

17:35 <raptop> !acr -add:IFMR Initial-Final Mass Relation

15:32 <raptop> !acr -add:TNO Trans-Neptunian Object

15:32 <raptop> !acr -add:ETNO Extreme Trans-Neptunian Object

2021-07-15

01:59 <raptop> !acr -add:OSSOS Outer Solar System Origins Survey

2021-07-06

22:16 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:WSO Weapon Systems Officer

22:15 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:NOSA Navigateur Officier Systèmes d’Armes

2021-07-04

11:49 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:FADEC Full Automatic Digital Engine Control

11:47 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:FLI First Limit Indicator

2021-06-30

15:57 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:APACHE Arme Planante À CHarges Éjectables

15:56 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:SCALP Système de Croisière conventionnel Autonome à Longue Portée

2021-06-27

17:18 <raptop> !acr -add:MATISSE the Multi AperTure mid-Infrared SpectroScopic Experiment

2021-06-22

20:45 <raptop> !acr -add:GIARPS GIAno and haRPS -- a HARPS spectrograph on TNG

20:43 <raptop> !acr -add:TNG Telescopio Nazionale Galileo / The Next Generation

15:02 <SnoopJ> !acr -add:BRAC Base Realignment and Closure

2021-06-14

02:26 <raptop> !acr -add:RV Radial Velocity

2021-06-12

16:43 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:ETCSL Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

16:43 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:BLMS Bilinguals in Late Mesopotamian Scholarship

2021-06-09

02:32 <raptop> !acr -add:MAROON-X Magellan Advanced Radial velocity Observer Of Neighboring eXoplanets (PRV red-optical spectrograph, which is confusingly on Gemini-North instead of one of the Magellans)

2021-06-06

02:20 <raptop> !acr -add:XRISM X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (pronounced "crism")

2021-06-03

00:25 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:ACSR Aluminium-Conductor Steel-Reinforced

2021-06-02

20:15 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:InSAR INterferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar

2021-06-01

22:25 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:EAP Étage d’Accélération à Poudre

22:23 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:PAP Propulseur d’Appoint à Poudre

15:19 <SnoopJ> !acr -add:GES Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage

15:18 <SnoopJ> !acr -add:OGLE Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment

2021-05-23

15:11 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:EMIRS Emirates Mars InfraRed Spectrometer

2021-05-14

18:02 <deadraptop> !acr -add:IRC InfraRed Catalog (results of Two Micron Sky Survey circa 1969-1975), Internet Relay Chat

18:00 <deadraptop> !acr -add:InfraRed Catalog (results of Two Micron Sky Survey circa 1969-1975), Internet Relay Chat

17:59 <SnoopJ> !acr -add:IRC Internet Relay Chat

17:46 <deadraptop> !acr -add:NIRSpec Near-InfraRed Spectrograph

2021-05-06

17:09 <raptop> !acr -add:PAH Poly-Aromatic Hydrocarbon

2021-05-04

06:02 <raptop> !acr -add:VAP Van Allen Probes (renaming of RBSP)

2021-04-30

16:10 <raptop> !acr -add:RCT Ritchey–Chrétien Telescope or Robotically Controlled Telescope

2021-04-28

22:41 <raptop> !acr -add:AAVSO American Association of Variable Star Observers

22:40 <raptop> !acr -add:APASS AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey

22:33 <raptop> !acr -add:APOGEE Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (large scale spectroscopic survey using the SDSS telescope)

22:28 <raptop> !acr -add:GALAH GALactic Archaeology with HERMES

22:27 <raptop> !acr -add:RAVE RAdial Velocity Experiment

22:27 <raptop> !acr -add:TGAS Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution

22:24 <raptop> !acr -add:SRG Spektr-RG (Russian/German Xray space telescope)

22:24 <raptop> !acr -add: SRG Spektr-RG (Russian/German Xray space telescope)

22:20 <raptop> !acr -add:PBH Primordial Black Hole

22:18 <raptop> !acr -add:NUV Near UltraViolet

22:16 <raptop> !acr -add:HIFI Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared (far IR instrument on Herschel)

22:09 <raptop> !acr -add:ULX Ultra-Luminous Xray source

2021-04-22

18:03 <raptop> !acr -add:IWA Inner Working Angle (the smallest angular distance from the center of the FOV that a coronagraph can observe)

2021-04-07

06:07 <raptop> !acr -add:GDPR General Data Protection Regulation (that thing that means you are required to meow back at any cats that meow at you)

2021-04-05

17:34 <raptop> !acr -add:FSOIP Face-Stab Over IP

2021-03-17

17:56 <raptop> !acr -add:HAT Hungarian Automated Telescope network

2021-03-09

21:36 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:PDP Programmed Data Processor

2021-03-02

21:16 <egg|anbo|egg_> !acr -add:COTAM COmmandement du Transport Aérien Militaire

2021-02-25

01:17 <raptop> !acr -add:Parker Solar Probe

01:13 <raptop> !acr -add:ABD All But Dissertation

2021-02-19

16:15 <egg|anbo|egg_> !acr -add:ASTAC Analyseur de Signaux TACtiques

2021-02-17

10:56 <egg|cell|egg> !acr -add:OSNMA Open Service Navigation Message Authentication

2021-02-15

05:40 <raptop> !acr -add:LMFR Liquid Metal Fast Reactor

05:40 <raptop> !acr -add:BWR Boiling Water Reactor

2021-02-13

14:07 <egg|anbo|egg_> !acr -add:PLB Personal Locator Beacon

14:06 <egg|anbo|egg_> !acr -add:EPIRB Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon

14:05 <egg|anbo|egg_> !acr -add:ELT Emergency Locator Transmitter

2021-02-12

22:17 <raptop> !acr -add:MESA Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics

21:29 <raptop> !acr -add:THYME TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets

06:53 <egg|anbo|egg_> !acr -add:RESUS REscue system for SUbmarineS

2021-02-08

21:25 <raptop> !acr -add:SED Spectral Energy Distribution

21:25 <raptop> !acr -add:SXR Soft X-Ray

2021-02-07

01:41 <egg|anbo|egg_> !acr -add:LRAC Lance-Roquettes AntiChar

01:40 <egg|anbo|egg_> !acr -add:DEMETER Detection of Electro-Magnetic Emissions Transmitted from Earthquake Regions

2021-02-06

06:13 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:CNKI China National Knowledge Infrastructure

2021-01-31

09:11 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:ASTER Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer

2021-01-30

14:33 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:AMDAR Aircraft Meteorological DAta Relay

2021-01-29

18:21 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:CAPACITY Composition of the Atmosphere: Progress to Applications in the user CommuITY

18:20 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:CEOS Committee on Earth Observation Satellites

2021-01-28

20:47 <egg|laptop|egg_> !acr -add:RAMMB Regional And Mesoscale Meteorology Branch

2021-01-26

23:27 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:FOPEN FOliage PENetration

2021-01-23

00:47 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:GGFC Global Geophysical Fluids Center

00:47 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:SBO Special Bureau for the Oceans

2021-01-20

21:50 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:AVHRR Advanced Very-High-Resolution Radiometer

15:25 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:EROS Earth Resources Observation Satellite

12:46 <raptop> !acr -add:ORC Odd Radio Circle

11:37 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:SOLMEA SOciété Lilloise de Mécanique et d’Électronique Appliquée

11:36 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:ENTE Énergie Nucléaire, Télécommunications, Électronique

11:35 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:SACM Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques

11:32 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:Alcatel ALsacienne de Constructions Atomiques, de TÉLécommunications et d’électronique

04:44 <raptop> !acr -add:LIFE Large Interferometer For Exoplanets

2021-01-19

20:09 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:NIFC National Interagency Fire Center

20:08 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:NIICD National Interagency Incident Communications Division

20:08 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:NIROPS National InfraRed OPerationS

20:07 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:NIO National Infrared Operations

01:39 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:NSOAS National Satellite Ocean Application Service 国家卫星海洋应用中心

2021-01-13

23:23 <raptop> !acr -add:BLAST-TNG The Next Generation Balloon-born Large Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope (please don't ask about the order)

23:22 <raptop> !acr -add:BLAST Balloon-born Large Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope

2021-01-12

05:14 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:STK Satellite Tool Kit

05:10 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:UNSAM Universidad Nacional de SAn Martín

04:56 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:NWPU NorthWestern Polytechnical University 西北工业大学

04:55 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:NUDT National University of Defense Technology 国防科技大学

04:54 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:BUAA Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics 北京航空航天大学

2021-01-07

17:27 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:MATLAS Mass Assembly of early Type gaLAxies with their fine Structures

2021-01-06

01:07 <raptop> !acr -add:BYORP Binary YORP

2021-01-05

20:04 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:VIKAS VIKram Ambalal Sarabhai

2020-12-31

05:51 <raptop> !acr -add:LOTO Lock Out, Tag Out

2020-12-22

22:18 <raptop> !acr -add:PEST Perth Exoplanet Survey Telescope

2020-12-10

02:13 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:SEP Société Européenne de Propulsion

2020-12-05

00:16 <oeuf> !acr -add:DND Droop Nose Device

00:13 <oeuf> !acr -add:ADHF Adaptive Dropped Hinge Flap

2020-12-02

22:06 <galois> Invalid command. Valid forms: !acr -add:LMAO Lagrange Made Awesome Orbits, !acr -redef:ROFL Rare Occultations for Life, !acr -del:IEEE

22:05 <galois> Invalid command. Valid forms: !acr -add:LMAO Lagrange Made Awesome Orbits, !acr -redef:ROFL Rare Occultations for Life, !acr -del:IEEE

22:00 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:TO Technical Order

19:18 <umbralraptop> !acr -add:ASAS-SN All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (pronunced "assasin", uses ~20 14 cm telescopes all over the planet)

2020-11-29

21:54 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:SWAS Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite

2020-11-28

16:34 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:TIROS Television and InfraRed Observation Satellite

16:33 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:SAMOS Satellite And Missile Observation System

01:12 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:ALEXIS Array of Low-Energy X-Ray Imaging Sensors

01:12 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:ALICE AFIT LEO iMESA CNT Experiment

01:10 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:STIS Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph

01:09 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:UVOT UltraViolet and Optical Telescope

2020-11-22

22:27 <galois> Invalid command. Valid forms: !acr -add:LMAO Lagrange Made Awesome Orbits, !acr -redef:ROFL Rare Occultations for Life, !acr -del:IEEE

22:27 <umbralraptop> !acr -add:DOG Dust Obscured Galaxy

2020-11-19

21:56 <SnoopJ> !acr -add:LEBT Low Energy Beam Transport

21:54 <umbralraptop> !acr -add:GBT Green Bank Telescope

21:51 <umbralraptop> !acr -add:NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory

2020-11-17

02:09 <galois> Invalid command. Valid forms: !acr -add:LMAO Lagrange Made Awesome Orbits, !acr -redef:ROFL Rare Occultations for Life, !acr -del:IEEE

02:09 <raptop> !acr -add:AtLAST Atacama Large Aperture Submillimetre Telescope

2020-11-16

00:11 <egg> !acr -add:ARGOS Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite

00:11 <egg> !acr -add:USA Unconventional Stellar Aspect

2020-11-14

19:09 <egg> !acr -add:VRSS Venezuelan Remote Sensing Satellite

2020-11-12

19:01 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:CCTF Consultative Committee for Time and Frequency

18:58 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:ROB Royal Observatory of Belgium

18:56 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:CGGTTS Common GNSS Generic Time Transfer Standard

17:30 <egg> !acr -add:EOSDIS Earth Observing System Data and Information System

14:11 <egg> !acr -add:BDT BeiDou Time

09:16 <raptop> !acr -add:HIGHTRAN HIGH-resolution TRANsmission molecular absorption database

09:16 <raptop> !acr -add: HIGHTRAN HIGH-resolution TRANsmission molecular absorption database

09:15 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:MTSAT Multi-functional Transport SATellite

09:15 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:MSAS MTSAT Satellite-based Augmentation System

09:13 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:GAGAN GPS-aided GEO augmented navigation

09:13 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:WAAS Wide Area Augmentation System

09:12 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:EGNOS European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service

09:05 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:DGPS Differential GPS

09:05 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:GNSSDO GNSS Disciplined Oscillators

2020-11-11

23:17 <raptop> !acr -add:VRO Vera Rubin Observatory (formerly LSST. Also, you're not supposed to use this. Refer to the telescope as the Rubin)

15:35 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:PAPI Precision Approach Path Indicator

00:32 <raptop> !acr -add:ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory

2020-11-10

23:44 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:EI2 European Intervention Initiative

23:42 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:ОАК Объединённая Авиастроительная Корпорация

23:42 <raptop> !acr -add:NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

23:42 <raptop> !acr -add:OTAN Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord

23:40 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:adj Сухой

23:34 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:DEFA Direction des Études et Fabrications d’Armement

23:31 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:adj Matra

2020-11-08

03:23 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:SNEB Société Nouvelle des Établissements Edgar Brandt

02:50 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:MICROB MIssiles-Canons-ROquettes-Bombes

2020-11-06

21:47 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:ОТПК Оптико-Телевизионный Прицельный Комплекс

10:51 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:ELISA Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay

2020-11-02

18:35 <raptop> !acr -add:SMAUG Simulating Multiscale Astrophysics to Understand Galaxies

2020-11-01

17:02 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:OBOGS On-Board Oxygen Generating System

15:24 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:THEMIS Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms

15:24 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:ARTEMIS Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interaction with the Sun

00:48 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:MACS MAgellanic Catalogue of Stars

2020-10-30

01:18 <raptop> !acr -add:WFI Wide-Field Instrument 300.8 megapixel camera with 7 filters (0.48-2.00 μm) for cosmology/dark energy surveys

2020-10-29

18:40 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:CAD Chicago Assyrian Dictionary

2020-10-28

18:19 <raptop> !acr -add:NGRST Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (formerly WFIRST). Yes, we know that it's not supposed to have an acronym. You think that'll stop astronomers and aerospace engineers?

2020-10-26

17:25 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy

01:57 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:TVC Thrust Vector Control

01:54 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:CASSIOPE CAScade, Smallsat and IOnospheric Polar Explorer

2020-10-25

16:23 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:CONTOUR COmet Nucleus TOUR

2020-10-24

18:04 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:HIBEX HIgh Boost EXperiment

17:32 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:AHEAD Advanced Hit Efficiency and Destruction

2020-10-23

14:36 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers

2020-10-22

13:08 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:КОЛС Квантовая Оптико-Локационная Станция

13:06 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:OSF Optronique Secteur Frontal

13:04 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:PIRATE Passive InfraRed Airborne Track Equipment

13:03 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:IRST InfraRed Search and Track

13:00 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:MAGIC Missile Auto-Guidé Interception et Combat

12:59 <whitequark> !acr -add:SLAMRAAM Surface Launched Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile

12:59 <whitequark> !acr -add:AMRAAM Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile

12:58 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:ASRAAM Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile

12:58 <whitequark> !acr -add:SLIR Side-Looking InfraRed

12:56 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:FLIR Forward-Looking InfraRed

2020-10-21

11:39 <galois> Invalid command. Valid forms: !acr -add:LMAO Lagrange Made Awesome Orbits, !acr -redef:ROFL Rare Occultations for Life, !acr -del:IEEE

2020-10-20

17:26 <umbralraptop> !acr -add:KODIAQ Keck Observatory Database of Ionized Absorption toward Quasars

17:26 <umbralraptop> !acr -add: KODIAQ Keck Observatory Database of Ionized Absorption toward Quasars

17:26 <umbralraptop> !acr-add: KODIAQ Keck Observatory Database of Ionized Absorption toward Quasars

14:38 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:2MUCD 2MASS UltraCool Dwarfs

14:37 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:LHS Luyten Half-Second

14:37 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:LFT Luyten Five-Tenths

2020-10-19

19:27 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:AAAAA Association Amicale des Amateurs d’Andouillette Authentique

2020-10-18

19:43 <egg> !acr -add:HR Harvard Revised photometry

2020-10-17

12:30 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:GCRV General Catalog of stellar Radial Velocities

12:29 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:BD Bonner Durchmusterung

12:28 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:EPIC Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog

12:27 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:WDS Washington Double Star

12:26 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:HIC Hipparcos Input Catalogue

12:26 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:CD Cordoba Durchmusterung

12:24 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:NLTT New Luyten Two Tenths

2020-10-11

23:41 <egg> !acr -add:LTT Luyten Two Tenths

2020-10-09

20:22 <egg> !acr -add:LAWD Luyten, Atlas of White Dwarfs

20:22 <galois> Invalid command. Valid forms: !acr -add:LMAO Lagrange Made Awesome Orbits, !acr -redef:ROFL Rare Occultations for Life, !acr -del:IEEE

20:21 <egg> !acr -add:LADW Luyten, Atlas of White Dwarfs

2020-10-08

12:38 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:INRAP Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives

2020-10-05

03:05 <raptop> !acr -add:LLAMA Large Latin American Millimeter Array

2020-10-04

16:59 <raptop> !acr -add:HPL Howard Phillips Lovecraft

2020-10-03

18:51 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:MOSE MOdulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico

2020-09-28

21:12 <raptop> !acr -add:OSIRIS-REx Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer

21:12 <raptop> acr-add:OSIRIS-REx Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer

2020-09-19

12:03 <UmbralRaptop> !acr -add:ISCO Innermost Stable Circular Orbit (3 Schwarzschild radii)

2020-09-17

03:15 <raptop> !acr -add:YSG Yellow SuperGiant

03:15 <raptop> 3~!acr -add:YSG Yellow SuperGiant

03:06 <raptop> !acr -add:YHG Yellow HyperGiant

2020-09-16

17:03 <raptop> !acr -add:EGRET Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (instrument on the compton gamma ray observatory)

2020-09-14

22:21 <raptop> !acr -add:USB-C Universal Serial Bus - Cursed

19:45 <raptop> !acr -add:ORCAS ORbiting Configurable Artificial Star https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/orcas/

19:45 <galois> Invalid command. Valid forms: !acr -add:LMAO Lagrange Made Awesome Orbits, !acr -redef:ROFL Rare Occultations for Life, !acr -del:IEEE

04:23 <raptop> !acr -add:DESTINY+ (デスティニー　プラス) Demonstration and Experiment of Space Technology for INterplanetary voYage with Phaethon fLyby and dUst Science

04:21 <raptop> !acr -add:DESTINY Demonstration and Experiment of Space Technology for INterplanetary voYage with Phaethon fLyby and dUst Science

2020-09-10

23:54 <raptop> !acr -add:ТКС Транспортный Корабль Снабжения

23:52 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:TKS Транспортный Корабль Снабжения

23:52 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:ТКС Транспортный Корабль Снабжения

23:42 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:FGB Функционально-Грузовой Блок

23:41 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:ФГБ Функционально-Грузовой Блок

23:39 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:DOS Durable Orbital Station

23:38 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:ДОС Долговременная Орбитальная Станция

14:48 <egg> !acr -add:NIHAO Numerical Investigation of a Hundred Astrophysical Objects

03:02 <raptop> !acr -add:SMBH Super Massive Black Hole

02:59 <raptop> !acr -add:SLAB Stupendously Large Black Hole (10^12 - 10^18 solar masses)

2020-09-09

12:58 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:MCSA Mir Cooperative Solar Array

2020-09-08

23:31 <egg|laptop|egg> !acr -add:BLITS Ball Lens In The Space

2020-07-29

06:47 <raptop> !acr -add:SMAUG Simulating Multiscale Astrophysics to Understand Galaxies

2020-07-28

09:36 <egg|anbo|egg> !acr -add:SPENVIS SPace ENVironment Information System

2020-07-22

18:26 <raptop> !acr -add:HITRAN HIgh resolution TRANsmission -- a database of transmission spectra

2020-07-20

16:20 <SaganRaptop> !acr -add:LDT Lowell Discovery Telescope (4.3 m mirror, Airzona)

16:19 <SaganRaptop> !acr -add:DCT Discovery Channel Telescope (4.3 m mirror, Airzona, has been renamed to LDT)

16:18 <SaganRaptop> !acr -add:LBT Large Binocular Telescope (pair of 8.4 m mirrors, in Mount Graham Arizona)

2020-07-09

19:21 <egg|anbo|egg_> !acr -add:HVAC Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning