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
Long Wavelength Array station low-frequency radio astronomy instrument
Atacama Pathfinder Experiment radio telescope
EMMI
SUSI astronomical imaging instrument
SOFI
GROND
X-ray polarimeter
Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer space telescope instrument
ACIS
High Resolution Camera space telescope instrument
HRC X-ray space telescope instrument
High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer space telescope instrument
Wide Field Instrument space telescope instrument
Coronagraph Instrument space telescope instrument
Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer space telescope instrument
GMOS-N (Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph North)
surface form: GMOS-N
NIRI (Near-Infrared Imager and Spectrometer)
surface form: NIRI
NIFS (Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer)
surface form: NIFS
Altair adaptive optics system
GRACES (Gemini Remote Access to CFHT ESPaDOnS Spectrograph)
surface form: GRACES
astronomical instrument interface
MAROON-X (precision radial-velocity spectrograph)
surface form: MAROON-X
Cambridge interferometer arrays radio astronomy instrument
GNIRS (Gemini Near-Infrared Spectrograph)
surface form: GNIRS
Atmospheric Imaging Assembly solar telescope instrument
AIA solar imaging instrument
HMI solar observatory instrument
Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment space-based solar observatory instrument
WATSON camera imaging instrument
Hipparcos satellite
surface form: Hipparcos
astrometry satellite
FLoridA Multi-object Imaging Near-Infrared Grism Observational Spectrometer 2
surface form: FLAMINGOS-2
FLAMINGOS
Gemini South instrument suite astronomical instrument suite
WISE infrared camera space telescope instrument
PACS
SPIRE space telescope instrument
HIFI space telescope instrument
HiRISE instrument
surface form: HiRISE
telescope
Low Frequency Instrument space telescope instrument
High Frequency Instrument space telescope instrument
MegaCam
WIRCam
ESPaDOnS
SITELLE
SPIRou
NIRC2 camera
OSIRIS spectrograph
Suprime-Cam astronomical camera
FOCAS
MOIRCS
IRCS