Acronym Solution 11HUGS 11 Mpc Halpha and Ultraviolet Galaxy Survey (Yowza. We have a winner!) 2D-FRUTTI 2-D Photon Counting System (I swear, I didn't make this up. It was on CTIO as best I can tell. Manual here) 2MASS Two Micron All-Sky Survey 25BEARS ??? It's on ASTE. I need specifics 5MUSES 5 Mjy Unbiased Spitzer Extragalactic Survey (in Acronym mode, their 5 mJy survey seems less impressive in it's senstivity) ABRACADABRA A Broadband/Resonant Approach to Cosmic Axion Detection with an Amplifying B-field Ring Apparatus (sounds like magic to me) ACBAR Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver ("It's a photon trap!") ACE Advanced Composition Explorer ADIoS Aste Dense gas Imaging Of Spiral galaxies (an AMFA: Acronym Made From Acronyms) ADONIS Adaptive Optics Near-Infrared System AESOP An Extensive Symbolic Optics Package AGAPE Andromeda Galaxy and Amplified Pixel Experiment AGHAST A Grism H-Alpha SpecTroscopic survey (seems like only yesterday I was agape) AIM Astrometric Interferometry Mission AIPS Astronomical Image Processing System ALEXIS Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors ALFA Adaptive optics with Lasers For Astronomy ALFA Arecibo L-band Feed Array ALFAFA Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA survey (technically you have Arecibo in there twice) ALHAMBRA Advanced LArge, Homogeneous Area Medium Band Redshift Astronomical survey ALPO Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers AMANDA Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array AMASE Astrophysics Multispectral Archive Search Engine AMBER Astronomical MultiBEam Recombiner ANCHORS AN archive of CHandra Observations of Regions of Star formation (Woweee. That's terrible) ANDICAM A Novel Dual Imaging CAMera ANDREAS Advanced Name Designer REgarding Astronomical Systems (Bryan Gaensler's astro-acro informant) ANIS All Neutrino Interaction Simulation (LOL!) ANTARES Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental RESearch (whatever that means) APHID Atmospheric PHase Inference Device APOGEE APO Galaxy Evolution Experiment (AMFA!) APT Asia Pacific Telescope ARCADE Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission ARCSEC Association of Roman Catholics for the promotion of Space Exploration and Colonization ARIES Arizona Infrared Imager and Echelle Spectrograph ARISE Advanced Radio Interferometry between Space and Earth ARISTOTELES Applications and Research Involving Space Technologies Observing the Earth's field from Low Earth orbiting Satellite ARMPIT ASKAP Rotation Measure and Polarisation InvestigaTion (an AMFA: ASKAP=Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder) ARTEMIS Advanced Relay TEchnology MISsion ASTER Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emmision and Reflection AST/RO Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory ATLAS Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science ATLASGAL AURA Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy AVIRIS Airborne Visible/InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer AVOCADO A Virtual Observatory Census to Address Dwarfs Origins (from a short podium I imagine) AzTEC The AZtronomical Thermal Emission Camera (that's cheating) BACODINE BATSE COordinate DIstribution NEtwork (BATSE=Burst And Transient Source Experiment) BAD Balmer-Absorption-Dominated (Nuclei) BAM Balloon-bourne Anisotropy Measurement BaR-SPOrt BAlloon-bourne Radiometers for Sky Polarisation ObseRvaTions (honestly) BATMAN Bad-Ass Transit Model cAlculatioN (someone knows the game) BEER BEaming, Ellipsoidal & Reflection effects (mmmm, BERE) BICEP Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (feel the burn) BIGASS Bright Infrared Galaxy All Sky Survey (J. Howell is still a winner in my book!) BIGRAT BIcentennial Gamma RAy Telescope BiSON Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network BLAST Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope BLISS Background-Limited Infrared-Submillimeter Spectrograph BLOSM Broad band and Large area x-ray Omni Sky Monitor BOOJUMS Blue Objects Observed Just Undergoing Moderate Starbursts (`Boojums' is from Lewis Carrolls poem ``The Hunting of the Snark'') BOOMERanG Balloon Observations Of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics BRITE BRIght Target Explorer (creating an acronym just to mis-spell the word bright?) CAFE CAssegrain Fiber Environment CANDELS Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey CANGAROO Collaboration between Australian and Nippon for a Gamma Ray Observatory in the Outback (krazy!) CARA Centre for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica CARMA Combined Array for Research in Millimetre-wave Astronomy CASA-BLANCA Chicago Air Shower Array - Broad LAteral Non-imaging Cerenkov Array CASIMIR CAltech Submillimeter Interstellar Medium Investigations Receiver CASPIR Cryogenic Array SPectrometer ImageR CASTLES Cfa/Arizona Space Telescope LEns Survey CAT Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope ChAOS Chicago Adaptive Optics System CHARA Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy CHASE Coronal Helium Abundance Spacelab Experiment CHIPS Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer CIAO Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations CIRPASS Cambridge InfraRed PAnoramic Survey Spectrograph CIRRIS Cryogenic InfraRed Radiance Instrument for Shuttle CIRSI Cambridge InfraRed Survey Instrument (as in Cerse, the daughter of sun god Helius) CISCO Cooled Infrared Spectrograph and Camera for OHS COAST Cambridge Optical Aperature Synthesis Telescope COAST Cambridge Optical Aperature Synthesis Telescope CLOUD Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets (huh?) COBRA Cadmium-zinc-telluride O-neutrino double-Beta Research Apparatus (The "O" is for "Zero" 0f c0urse) COBRAS/SAMBA COsmic Background Radiation Anisotropy Satellite/SAtellite to Measure Background Anisotropies COCOA-PUFS COordinated Campaign of Observations and Analysis, Photosphere to Upper atmosphere, of a Fast-rotating Star (I'm coo coo for a ridiculous acronym!) COHSI Cambridge OH Suppresion Instrument COINS CSOs Observed In Northern Sky COMPLETE COodinated Molecular Probe Line Extinction Thermal Emissio (survey) COMPLEX COMmittee on Planetary and Lunar spave EXploration CORNEA Corrective Optics R? N? Emmending Atmosphere (would you believe on IRIS ?) COSMOS CoOrdinates, Sizes, Magnitudes, Orientations, and Shapes COSTAR Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement COLA Compact Objects in Low power Agns COME ON+ ? (Adaptive Optics on ESO 3.6 m Telescope) COMPASS COsmic Microwave Polarization At Small Scales CONICA COude Near Infrared CamerA COW Committee Of the Wise (scheduling committee for WET) COYOTES Coordinated Observations of Young ObjecTs from Earthbound Sites CREAM Cosmic Radiation Effects and Activatiom Monitor CUBIC Cosmic Unresolved Background Instrument using CCD's DAISY Data Acquisition and Interpretation System DASI Degree Angular Scale Interferometer/td> DAZLE Dark Ages Z (redshift) Lyman-alpha Explorer DEBRA Diffuse Extragalactic Background RAdiation DEBRIS Disc Emission via a Bias-free Reconnaissance in the Infrared/Sub-millimetre (not bad...) DEEP Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe DEERS Deeply Embedded Energetic Radio Sources DEIMOS Deep Extragalactic Imaging Multi Object Spectrograph DENIS DEep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky DIGIT Dust, Ice, and Gas In Time (everything in time...) DIMES DIffuse Microwave Emission Survey DIRT Dust InfraRed Toolbox DIVA Deutsches Interferometer fuer Vielkanalphotometry und Astrometrie DIXI Deep Impact eXtended Investigation DONUT Direct Observation of NU Tau DRAGN Double Radio sources Associated with Galactic Nuclei DUO Disk Unseen Objects DUNES DUst disks around NEarby Stars DUPLEX DUst-Prominent Longitudinally-EXtended EGG Evaporating Gaseous Globule EGRET Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope EIDERS Externally Ionized Disks in the Environs of Radiation Sources ELFS Extremely Luminous Far-infrared Sources EPOCh Extrasolar Planet Observations and Characterization (see below for evolution) EPOXI The result of merging the EPOCh and DIXI missions (an AMFAMFA, Acronym Made From AMFAs) EROS Expérience de Recherche d'Objects Sombres ESP ESO Slice Project (an AMFA) ETC Explosive Transient Camera EURECA EUropean REtrievable CArrier FAME Fizeau Astrometric Mapping Explorer FaNTOmM Fabry-perot of New Technology for the Observatoire du mont Megantic (wow... just wow) FAST Fast Auroral SnapshoT explorer FASTSOUND Fmos Ankoku Shindou Tansa Subaru Observation Understanding Nature of Dark energy (A multilanguage AMFA. FMOS is 'Fiber Multi-Object Spectrograph' and Ankoku Shindou Tansa is Japanese for 'Dark Oscillation Survey' FATBOY The Florida Analysis Tool Born of Yearning for high-quality scientific data (this may be the worse... or best yet) FAUST FAr-Ultraviolet Space Telescope FIBRE Fabry-perot Interferometer Bolometer Research Experiment FIDEL Far Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy FIFI Far Infrared Fabry-perot Interferometer FIGARO French Italian GAmma Ray Observatory FILM Far Infrared Line Mapper FIREFLY Fitting IteRativEly For Likelihood analYsis (I admire the commitment to the cause!) FIRST Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-centimeters FITS Flexible Image Transport System FLAIR Fibre Linked Array Image Reformatter FLAMINGOS FLoridA Multi-object Imaging Near-infrared Grism Observational Spectrometer (eek) FLIERS Fast, Low-Ionization Emission RegionS FLITECAM First Light Infrared Test Experiment CAMera (it's on SOFIA, so it really is a flying camera. Good work!) FORCAST Faint Object infraRed CAmera for the SOFIA Telescope (Also an AMFA; Thanks to Luke Keller) FORT Foyer Optimise pour le RadioTelescope (FORT="strong" in French) FOXES Fluctuating Optical and X-ray Emitting Sources FRED Fast RisE, rapid Decay (pulse structure in pulsars) FROG Faint Red Outlier Galaxy FUC Far Ultraviolet Camera FUCR Far Ultra-Chromatic Rocket (thanks to Will Marchant) FUSE Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer GAIA Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics GADZOOKS! Gadolinium Antineutrino Detector Zealously Outperforming Old Kamiokande, Super! (PI insists on the exclaimation point! Awesome!) GALAPAGOS Galaxy Analysis over Large Areas: Parameter Assessment by Galfitting Objects from Sextractor (took some work!) GANDALF Gas AND Absorption Line Fitting algorithm (pushed all the right nerd buttons) GASP Gamma-rays At the South Pole GASP Guide star selection system Astrometric Support Package GASPS GAS in Protoplanetary Systems GEMS Glasses Embedded Metals and Sulfides GIMP Geo-magnetically induced Image Motion Problem (on HST) GISMO Goddard-Iram Superconducting 2-Millimeter Observer (the '2' is silent. I guess GITMO was inappropriate)) GENIUS GErmanium liquid NItrogen Underground Setup GIPSY Groningen Image Processing SYstem GLIMPSE GLobal IMPlicit SEarch GLIMPSE Galactic Legacy Infrared MidPlane Survey Extraordinaire GOALS Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey (another AMFA!) GOBELINS GOuld's BELt dIstaNces Survey (work it!) GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites GOD Gravity One Dimension (The paper was entitled `The likelihood of GODs' existence'...) GONG Global Oscillations Network Group GOODS Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey GNAT Global Network of Astronomical Telescopes GRAPE GRAvity PipE GRAPES GRism Acs Program for Extragalactic Science GRASP Gamma-Ray Astronomy with Spectroscopy and Positioning GREAT German REceiver for Astronomy at Terahetz frequencies (it'd better be good!) GUPPI Green bank Ultimate Pulsar Processing Instrument (like PUPPI) HARP Hermite AcceleratoR Pipe HAWAII HgCdTe Astronomical Wide Area Infrared Imager HEAD High Energy Astrophysics Division HEAT High-Energy Antimatter Telescope HELLAS High-Energy Large Area Survey (I don't know where the extra L came from, but I think Hellas is the ancient name for Greece.) HERB High Energy Resolution Burst HERITAGE HERschel Inventory of The Agents of Galaxy Evolution (agents?) HERMES HERschel M33 Extended Survey HEROES HERschel Observations Edge-on Spirals HIFI Hawaii Imaging Fabry-perot Interferometer HIPPARCOS HIgh Precision PARallax COllecting Satellite (I genuinely did not know this was an acronym until readers pointed out I missed it :P) HIPPIES Hubble Infrared Pure Parallel Imaging Extragalactic Survey HIS/HERS High Intensity Spectrograph / High Energy Range Spectrometer HO-BAGS Hubble Observatory BAckground Galaxy Survey HOEs Holographic Optical Elements H0LiCOW H 0 Lenses in COSMOGRAIL’s Wellspring (A subscript as an acronyn, AND an AMFA! Great on so many levels) HOPS Herschel Orion Protostar Survey Hot DOGs Hot Dust-Obscured Galaxies IDEA Initiative to Develop Education through Astronomy INTEGRAL INTErnational Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory IOTA Infrared and Optical Telescope Array IRAC InfraRed Array Camera IRIS Infra Red Imager Spectrograph JACARA Joint Australian Centre for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica JADES JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (an AMFA!) JAGUAR JAdes extraGalactic Ultradeep Artificial Realizations (an AMFAMFA!) JAVELIN Just Another Vehicle for Estimating Lags In Nuclei (formerly known as SPEAR, see below) JIVE Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe KARMEN Karlsruhe Appleton Rutherford Medium Neutrino Experiment KASCADE KArlsruhe Shower Core and Array DEtector KINGFISH Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: a Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel KISS KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey KNAC Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium KOSMA Kölner Observatorium für Submillimeter Astronomie LACE Low power Atmospheric Compensation Experiment LALA Large Area Lyman Alpha survey LAMOST Large sky Area Mulit Object fiber Spectrscopic Telescope LAMP Lick AGN Monitoring Project (AMFA) LEST Large Earth-based Solar Telescope LIGHT Light Interferometer satellite for the studies of Galactic Halo Tracers LINERS Low Ionization Nuclear Emission-line Regions LIRIS Long slit Intermediate Resolution Intrared Spectrograph LISA Laser Interfeter Space Antenna LUCIFER LBT near infrared spectroscopic Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extragalactic Research (apparently most of that is silent, and and AMFA) MACAO Multi-Application Curvature Adaptive Optics MACHO MAssive Compact Halo Objects MACRO Monopoles, Astrophysics, and Cosmic Ray Observatory MAGES MIPS AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey (a double AMFA!) MAGNUM Multicolor Active Galactic Nuclei Monitoring project MAMA Multi-Anode Microchannel Array MAMBO MAx-planck-Millimeter-BOlometer MANGA MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache point observatory MAP Microwave Anisotropy Probe MAPS Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner MARTINI Multi-Aperture Real Time Image NormalIzation system MASCARA Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA MASSIF Masses and Stellar Systems with InterFerometry MAX Millimeter wave Anisotropy eXperiment MAXIMA Millimeter wave Anisotropy eXperiment IMaging Array MBONE Multicast BackbONE MERLIN Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network MESSENGER MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (I geniunely didn't realize this was an acronym!) MIAOW Minimum Inertia Adaptive Optics Widget MICE Muons in ICE MICHELLE Mid-Infrared eCHELLE spectrograph MIDAS Munich Image Data Analysis System MIDGet Millimeter Interferometry of Dwarf Galaxies (adding letters to be offensive?, especially when they prefer to be called "little galaxies") MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions MIRA Mitaka optical and Infra-Red interferometer Array MIRAC Mid InfraRed Array Camera MIRACLE Mid-InfraRed Array Camera of Least Effort MIRIAD Multichannel Image Reconstruction, Image Analysis and Display MIRLIN Mid-InfraRed Large Imager (the 'N' doesn't stand for anything!) MOMI Manchester Occulting Mask Imager MONICA MONtreal Infrared CAmera MOSAIC MDM/Ohio State/ALADDIN Infrared Camera (really!) MOST Microvariability and Oscillations of STars MOST Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope MUNICS MUnich Near-Infrared Cluster Survey (awesome) MUSE Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer MUSICOS MUlit-SIte COordinated Spectroscopy NANOGRAV North American Nanohertz Observatory for GRAVitational waves NEAT Near Earth Asteriod Tracking (telescope) NHEMESES New HErshel Multi-wavelength Extragalactic Survey of Edge-on Spirals NIRI Near InfraRed Imager NITE Near-Infrared Telescope Experiment NOT Nordic Optical Telescope OASIS Optically Adaptive System for Imaging Spectroscopy OGLE Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment OHANA Optical Hawaiian Array for Nanoradian Astronomy (A plan to join Mauna Kea optical observatories into one interferometer. Ohana is Hawaiian for 'family'. OK, this one is good.) OPAL Orbiting Picosat Automatic Launcher OPUS Observations support/post-observation data Processing Unified System (good god!) ORFEUS Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer OSCAR Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio OSCIR Observatory Spectrometer Camera for the InfraRed OSIRIS Optical Space Interferometer: Russian Instrument for Stellar astronomy OSIRIS-REx Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (I would have worked harder to make TYRANNOSIRIS-REx) OWL Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (so big, it's ridiculous) PAPER Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization PEARS Probing Evolution And Reionization Spectroscopically PEPSI Potsdam Echelle Polarimetric and Spectroscopic Instrument (their logo is gloriously close to copyright infringement; pepsi.aip.de PHaEDRA Preserving Harvard's Early Data and Research in Astronomy PHEBUS Payload for High Energy BUrst Spectroscopy PIG Partially Ionized Globule PINOCCHIO PINpointing Orbit-Crossing Collapsed HIerarchial Objects (Egad!) PINTofALE Package for the INTeractive Analysis of Line Emission (E for Effort, but this is PINTAofLE) PIQUE Princeton IQU Experiment PIT Phase 1 Tool (for Gemini, replacing POOPSY) PLANET Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork POEM Polar Orbiting Earth Mission POINTS Precision Optical INTerferometer in Space POLAR Polarization Observations of Large Angular Regions (what's an angular region?) POLARBEAR POLARization of the Background millimEter bAckground Radiation (very weak) POOPSY Phase One Observing Proposal SYstem POST POlar Stratosperic Telescope PRESTO Project to Re-Engineer Space Telescope Observing PROSAC PROtostellar Submillimetre Array Campaign (a pretty hard campaign) PUPPI Puerto rican Ultimate Pulsar Processing Instrument (like GUPPI) QUEST Q and U Extra-galactic Sub-mm Telescope QUIJOTE Q-U-I JOint TEnerife (30 GHz Polarimeter) QUIRC QUick InfRared Camera RASSCALS ROSAT All-Sky Survey-Center for Astrophysics Loose Systems (yet another AMFA) RATTS Run Away T-Tauri Stars RAVE the RAdial Velocity Experiment RESCEU RESearch Center for the Early Universe RICE Radio Ice Cerenkov Experiment SAFARI SpicA FAR-infrared Instrument (an AMFA!) SAGA Solar Array Gain Augmentation SAGE Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (overly forced!) SAGES Study of the Astrophysics of Globular clusters in Extragalactic Systems SARA Satellite pour Astronomie Radio Amateur SASS Standard Analysis Software System SASS Spitzer Atlas of Stellar Spectra SAX Satellite per Astronomia X (its Italian) SAURON Spectroscopic Areal Unit for Research on Optical Nebulae (mmmm, nerdy) SCAR Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research SCORE SIRTF-CORnell Echelle SCUBA Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array SEQUOIA SEcond QUabbin Optical Imaging Array SERENDIP Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations SERTS Solar EUV Rocket Telescope Spectrograph SERVS Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey SGARFACE Short GAmma Ray Front AirCerenkov Experiment (Sweet misspelled goodness) SHARC Submillimeter High Angular Resolution Camera (eats SCUBA alive they claim) SHARE Space station Heat pipe Advanved Radiator Element SHARP System for High-Angular-Resolution Pictures SHEEP Search for the High Energy Extragalactic Population SHIT Super Huge Interferometric Telescope (look for yourself) SiEGMuND Simulation of Events with Geant for Muon and Neutrino Detectors SIGMA Systeme d'Imagerie Gamma a Masque Aleatoire SIMBAD Set of Identifications, Measurements and Bibliography for Astronomical Data SIMPLE Spitzer IRAC/MUSYC Public Legacy survey in the Extended chandra deep field south (Wow, SIMPLSECDFS?) SINFONI the SINgle Faint Object Near-infrared Investigation SINGS SIRTF Infrared Nearby Galaxy Survey (an AMFA) SIMPLE Superheated Instrument for Massive ParticLe Experiments SLAP Space Link Access Protocol SMAC Streaming Motions of Abel Clusters SMIRFS Sub Millimeter InfraRed Fiber-feed System (or something) SMOG Spitzer Mapping of the Outer Galaxy SMUDGES Systematic Multiwavelength Unbiased catalog of Dwarf Galaxies and Evolution of Structure (clever and appropriate) SNAP SuperNova Acceleration Probe SOAR Southern Observatory for Astrophysical Research SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy SODA Small Objects DAtabase SOHO SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory SOLE Star-Obvious Low-level-Elongated SOLSTICE SOLar STellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment SONG Stellar Oscillations Network Group SONG Survey Of Nearby Galaxies SOONSPOT Solar Observing Optical Network / Solar Patrol On Tape SOUP Solar Optical Universal Polarimeter SPAN Space Physics and Analysis Network SPARTAN Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for AstroNomy SPASE South Pole Air ShowEr array SPAS SPace VLBI Assistance Software SPEAR Stochastic Process Estimation for Agn Reverberations (now upgraded to JAVELIN, see above) SPECULOOS Search for habitable Planets Eclipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars (after the cookies from Belgium) SPHERE Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument SPICA SPace Infra-red telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics SPICE Spectro-Photometric Infrared Celestrial Explorer SPIDERS SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Sources SPIFFI SPectrometer for Infrared Faint Field Imaging SPIFI South Pole Imaging Fabry-perot Interferometer SPIRAL Surface Photometry Interactive Reduction and Analysis Library SPIRAL Segmented Pupil/ Imaging Array Lenses SPIRE Spectral and Photometric Imaging REceiver for herschel SPLOT Snapshot survey for Polarised Light in Optical Transients SPOrt Sky Polarization Observatory (why not ObseRvaTory?) SPOT Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre SPUDS Spitzer Public legacy survey of the UKIDSS ultra Deep Survey (weak) SPYBAL SPectrum Y-BALance SQIID Simultaneous Quad-color Infrared Imaging Device SQUID Superconducting QUantum Interference Device SQUIRT Satellite QUIck Research Testbed STACEE Solar Tower Atmospheric Cherenkov Effect Experiment STEP Solar Terrestrial Energy Program SUGAR-RUSH Studying the Universe with GAlaxy suRveys Revealing the Unlimited in ShangHai (was the meeting in Shanghai just to make the acronym work?) SUMER Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation SURF SCUBA User Reduction Facility SUSI Sydney University Stellar Interferometer SUSPECT Sydney University SPECTrograph SuZIE Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Infrared Experiment STEFFI Spectrograph-TElescope Fibre-Feed Interface SWAN Solar Wind Anisotropy Experiment TADPOL Telescope Array Doing POLarization TANGOinPARIS Testing Astroparticle with the New Gev/tev Observations Positrons And electRons : Identifying the Sources (THE WINNER!) TAROT Telescope a Action Rapide pour les Objets Transitoires TATOOINE The Attempt To Observe Outer-planets In Non-single-stellar Environments (Genius! Star Wars nerds are the best nerds) TAU Thousand Astronomical Unit THINGS The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey (roman numerals as "I"; a first here!) THOR The Hi/Oh Recombination line survey of the milky way THUMPER Two HUndred Micron PhotometER TIM Telescope Image Modelling TIM (translates to) Mexican Infrared-optical Telescope TNTCAM Ten aNd Twenty Micron CAMera TOMBO Transient Observatory for Microlensing and Bursting Objects (Japanese project; telescopes resemble compound insect eyes; Tombo is Japanese for dragonfly) TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer TOOT TexOx-1000 (Oh, I get it, Texas-Oxford One Thousand; weak) T-RECS Thermal REgion Camera System TRAPPIST TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope (named after the beer making monks!) TRIFFID TRansputer Instrument For Fast Image Deconvolution (actually, it had no Transputer chips, and didn't even do deconvolution) UNSWIRF University of New South Wales Infrared Fabry-Perot (after an unpopular premier of NSW named Barry Unsworth) VERITAS Very large Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System VESTALE unVEil the darknesS of The gAlactic buLgE (you are not even trying anymore. UNDARGARB was within reach) VIPER VIMos Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey VIRGO Variability in Irradiance and Gravity Oscillations VIRIS Visual-InfraRed Imaging System VOIR Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (voir is french for "to see") WARPS Wide Angle ROSAT Pointed Survey WASP Wideband Analog SPectrometer WATCH Wide Angle Telescope for Cosmic Hard x-rays WET Whole Earth Telescope WHAM Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper WIMP Weakly Interacting Massive Particles WIRE Wide-field InfraRed Explorer WISARD Web Interface for Searching Archival Research Data WISEASS Weizmann Institute of Science Experimental Astrophysics Spectroscopy System WISP Wide field Imaging Symbiotic Program WITS Web Infrared ToolShed (has DIRT on it) WOMBAT Wavelength-Oriented Microwave Background Analysis Team (Go Team! They're playing the Molecular Astrophysics Team for the championship later this week.) WUPPE Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment YORIC Yet another Optimal Resolution Image Constructor (Alas...) ZEBRA Zurich Extragalactic Bayesian Redshift Analyzer