astronomical instrument

C3407
concept

An astronomical instrument is a specialized device or tool designed to observe, measure, or analyze celestial objects and phenomena.

All labels observed (59)

Label Occurrences
astronomical instrument canonical 110
radio telescope 46
space telescope instrument 41

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: astronomical instrument
Generated description
An astronomical instrument is a specialized device or tool designed to observe, measure, or analyze celestial objects and phenomena.

Instances (274)

Instance Via concept surface
Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer
Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer space telescope instrument
Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensors space telescope instrument
Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph astronomical telescope
FOS Hubble Space Telescope instrument
X-ray Spectrometer X-ray instrument
ACS astronomical imaging instrument
Wide Field Channel imaging instrument
COS space telescope instrument
GHRS space telescope instrument
Hubble Space Telescope science instruments astronomical observatory subsystem
LSST Camera astronomical camera
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope radio telescope
Evpatoria planetary radar radio telescope
Evpatoria RT-70 radio telescope radio telescope
Lyot coronagraphs coronagraph
FGS space telescope instrument
SECCHI
surface form: COR1
coronagraph
intensity interferometer
TMT ground-based optical telescope
Jai Prakash Yantra
Chakra Yantra
Rashivalaya Yantras
Unnatamsa Yantra
Karnti Vritya Yantra
Yantra Raj
Rama Yantra
Samrat Yantra
Nadi Valaya Yantra
Digamsa Yantra
ANDICAM
Kapala Yantra
Disha Yantra
LAT space telescope instrument
GBM space telescope instrument
Burst Alert Telescope gamma-ray telescope
Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope
Akari (infrared satellite)
surface form: Akari
infrared space telescope
Gamma-ray Burst Monitor space telescope instrument
85-foot Howard E. Tatel Radio Telescope radio telescope
Lovell Telescope radio telescope
Extreme Ultraviolet Imager solar telescope instrument
Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager solar telescope instrument
Metis coronagraph coronagraph
Radio and Plasma Waves instrument solar physics instrument
Curtis Schmidt Telescope astronomical telescope
Very Large Telescope optical telescope array
IMACS
FourStar
FIRE