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
Fine Guidance Sensor
GREGOR solar telescope solar telescope
Vacuum Tower Telescope solar telescope
NIRSpec
IAC-80 Telescope astronomical telescope
Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope radio telescope
Mid-Infrared Instrument space telescope instrument
Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph space telescope instrument
VLBA antenna at St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands radio telescope
GBT
surface form: Green Bank Telescope
radio telescope
VLBA antenna at Hancock, New Hampshire radio telescope
VLBA antenna at North Liberty, Iowa radio telescope
140-foot Green Bank Telescope radio telescope
VLBA antenna at Pie Town, New Mexico radio telescope
VLBA antenna at Owens Valley, California radio telescope
VLBA antenna at Brewster, Washington radio telescope
VLBA antenna at Mauna Kea, Hawaii radio telescope
Automated Planet Finder telescope astronomical telescope
NANTEN2 telescope radio telescope
ASTE telescope radio telescope
VERA (VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry)
surface form: VERA
radio astronomy instrument
VIRCAM
FOcal Reducer and low dispersion Spectrograph 2
Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch
IRDIS
ZIMPOL
IRDIS – Infra-Red Dual-beam Imager and Spectrograph
surface form: IRDIS
IFS – Integral Field Spectrograph
ZIMPOL – Zurich IMaging POLarimeter
surface form: ZIMPOL
Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer
High Acuity Wide field K-band Imager
VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid-InfraRed
VLT instrumentation suite astronomical instrumentation suite
Infrared Telescope (IRT)
Solar Optical Universal Polarimeter (SOUP)
surface form: Solar Optical Universal Polarimeter
solar physics instrument
Orrery
VST telescope
OmegaCAM
COSTAR Hubble Space Telescope instrument
High Speed Photometer Hubble Space Telescope instrument
Holmdel Horn Antenna radio telescope
Isaac Newton Telescope astronomical telescope
Shane Adaptive Optics system
Small Astronomy Satellite 2 gamma-ray telescope
WFI wide field imager astronomical camera
Dark Energy Camera astronomical camera
NICER Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer
surface form: NICER
X-ray astronomy instrument
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite exoplanet-hunting telescope
Submillimeter Telescope (Arizona) radio telescope
Greenland Telescope radio telescope