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
Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano radio telescope
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope infrared space telescope
Thaw Refractor
Keeler Memorial Reflector astronomical telescope
IGRINS-2 (Immersion GRating INfrared Spectrometer 2)
surface form: IGRINS-2
Zorro (speckle imager)
Phoenix (infrared spectrograph)
IRAC
MIPS space telescope instrument
NICMOS Hubble Space Telescope instrument
Camera 2
GMOS-S (Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph South)
surface form: GMOS-S
astronomical imager
Apollo 16 Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph
Armillary sphere
GSAOI (Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager)
surface form: GSAOI
GeMS (Gemini Multi-conjugate adaptive optics System)
surface form: GeMS
WFC astronomical imaging instrument
Airy Transit Circle
FAST radio telescope
China Sky Eye radio telescope
RT-70 radio telescope
Evpatoria RT-70 radio telescope
Barlow lenses
surface form: Barlow lens
telescope accessory
ATA
surface form: Allen Telescope Array
SETI instrument