| Acronym | Meaning |
| HALOE | Halogen Occultation Experiment |
| IUE | International Ultraviolet Explorer |
| LMC | Large Magellanic Cloud |
| RMCD | Radaiation Monitoring Container Device |
| VMF | Voenno-Morskoy Flot |
| IRAS | InfraRed Astronomical Satellite |
| IDA | International Dark-sky Association |
| MOPITT | Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere |
| SB | Spiral |
| EUVE | Extreme UltraViolet Explorer |