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Generate telescope names for space missions, mountain sites, radio arrays and the scope in your backyard, from Halvorsen Deep Field Telescope and Meridian Array to The Really Rather Large Telescope, Bob the Dob and Big Bertha.

About telescope names

Professional telescopes get their names in a few well-worn ways. Many honor a person: the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope are real examples. Others are named for the mountain they stand on, and a famous few simply state their size, as the Very Large Telescope does. Radio instruments often work in groups, so many of their names end in Array or Interferometer, and survey projects love an acronym.

This list of 1,000 names follows those habits without copying them. The honor names use made-up surnames or astronomers from long ago, as in Halvorsen Deep Field Telescope and Hevelius Lunar Mapper. The sites are fictional peaks and deserts such as Mount Ansgar and Saltglass Desert. The acronyms spell real words and expand to something an instrument could do, for example HUSH (Hydrogen Ultra-Sensitive Hunter), and the size-bragging tradition gets a friendly ribbing in The Really Rather Large Telescope.

The rest is for telescopes closer to home and further from reality. There are campus and club instruments, antique brass refractors, pet names for a backyard scope (Bob the Dob, Photon Hog, Big Bertha), observing-field puns, fantasy spyglasses and lonely listening posts for science fiction. A Dob is a Dobsonian reflector and a Mak is a Maksutov, in case the nicknames are new to you.

How to choose telescope names

  • Decide what kind of instrument it is first. Telescope suits a single mirror or lens, Array or Interferometer a group of dishes working together, and Explorer, Mapper or Imager a space mission with one job.
  • For an honor name, invent the person. Give your setting an astronomer with a surname and a discovery, then let the staff shorten the name the way The Halvorsen and The Okonkwo do on this list.
  • Build an acronym backwards: pick a short word that sounds right (DUSK, TERN, FLARE), then find an expansion that describes the job. If the expansion needs a filler word to work, pick another acronym.
  • A backyard telescope usually earns its name. Wait for the first night out: the scope that needs two trips to the car, fogs over or finally shows you Saturn's rings will suggest its own nickname.
  • Naming a real club or school instrument? Search the name before you paint it on the tube. This list is fiction, but a name here can match a real telescope or observatory by coincidence.

Frequently asked questions

What is a good name for a backyard telescope?

Amateur astronomers tend to name a scope for its shape, its color or its habits. The list has affectionate ones like Big Bertha, Bob the Dob, Stovepipe and Photon Hog, and rueful ones like The Cloud Magnet and Aperture Fever. Short names work best, because you will say it every time you carry the thing outside.

How do real telescopes get their names?

Usually from a person, a place or a plain description. The Hubble Space Telescope honors an astronomer, the Keck telescopes carry a funder's name, and the Very Large Telescope describes itself. Many working instruments are known only by the size of the mirror. Those real names are mentioned here as examples and are not part of the list.

Are the names on this page real telescopes?

No. The list is written as fiction: the scientists with invented surnames, the mountains and the acronyms are made up, and the historical astronomers honored in names like Riccioli Moon Mapper are long dead. There are a great many telescopes in the world, so a name can still match a real one by chance. Search it before you use it in public.

What should I call a telescope in a science fiction or fantasy story?

For science fiction, name the place and the job: Heliopause Listening Post, Oort Watch Station, Farside Dark Ages Radio Telescope. For fantasy, drop the word telescope and use glass, lens or spyglass with an owner, as in The Moonwright's Lens and The Farseeing Glass of Ysolde.

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A: 47 names

  • Aaltonen Cold Universe Telescope
  • Abernethy X-ray Telescope
  • Above the Clouds Telescope
  • Abyssal String Neutrino Detector
  • Adeyemi Cosmic Dawn Telescope
  • Aether Lens Mark Four
  • Aetherscope
  • Aglaonice Lunar Telescope
  • Airborne Eclipse Chaser
  • Airline Legal
  • Airy Disk

A, continued

  • Al-Battani Solar Tower
  • Al-Biruni Meridian Telescope
  • Al-Sufi Galaxy Telescope
  • Al-Zarqali Astrometric Telescope
  • Alarmingly Wide Telescope
  • Albireo Twin Telescope
  • Aldebaran Infrared Telescope
  • Algol Eclipse Monitor
  • All-Night Meteor Camera
  • Alphecca
  • Altiplano Claro Telescope
  • Amaterasu Solar Telescope

A, continued

  • Anansi Web Array
  • Anaxagoras Solar Telescope
  • Ancient Light
  • Antonia Maury Spectral Telescope
  • Anybody Out There Array
  • Apastron
  • Aperture Fever
  • Aphelion Three
  • Apo Annie
  • Apprentice's First Glass
  • Arago Polarimeter Telescope
  • Arc Second Thoughts

A, continued

  • Arcsecond
  • Arcturus Northern Telescope
  • Argelander Star Counter
  • Arvidsson Background Explorer
  • Ashdown Ultraviolet Telescope
  • Ashen Light
  • ASPEN (All Sky Polarization Experiment Network)
  • Asteroid Belt Cartographer
  • Astonishingly Tall Telescope
  • Astraeus
  • Astronomy 101 Telescope
  • Averley State University Half-Meter

B: 39 names

  • Baby Blue
  • Backbreaker
  • Backlash Bandit
  • BADGER (Broadband Array for Deep Galactic Emission Research)
  • Baker's Dozen Dish Array
  • Barely Fits in the Dome Telescope
  • Barlow and Behold
  • Baryon Ripple Mapper
  • Baseline Zero
  • Behemoth Baseline Interferometer
  • Bellatrix
  • Bellhaven Society Memorial Refractor
  • Benjamin Banneker Eclipse Telescope

B, continued

  • Bergstrom Cluster Telescope
  • Beryllium Bloom
  • Bessel Parallax Telescope
  • Bhattacharya Space Telescope
  • BIG (Binocular Infrared Giant)
  • Big Bertha
  • Big Blue
  • Big Picture Telescope
  • Big Red
  • Big Telescope, Small Budget
  • Bitterroot Hydrogen Line Telescope
  • Black Lava Summit Telescope
  • BLINK (Bright Lightcurve Imaging Network for Kilonovae)

B, continued

  • Blue Marble Lookback Camera
  • Bluebell
  • Bob the Dob
  • Bode Outer Belt Finder
  • Borrowed Star Laser Launch Telescope
  • Bortle Nine Lives
  • Bow Shock Monitor
  • Brahmagupta Zenith Telescope
  • Breadloaf Ultraviolet Telescope
  • Brief Apogee Ultraviolet Rocket Telescope
  • Brown Dwarf Census Camera
  • Budget Permitting Large Telescope
  • Bushbaby

C: 60 names

  • Cabo Farol Coastal Telescope
  • Cabo Oscuro Observatory
  • Cairnmore Summit Telescope
  • Callisto and Arcas Twin Telescopes
  • Camp Chair Companion
  • Campus Green Heliostat
  • Canopus Southern Telescope
  • Captain
  • Captain Vane's Sky Glass
  • Caravan Master's Night Lens
  • Carrasquillo Lunar Farside Telescope
  • Carry-On
  • Cascade Flats Air Shower Telescope
  • Cassandra Early Warning Telescope
  • Cassegrain Elaine

C, continued

  • Cassie the Cass
  • Castellanos Exoplanet Telescope
  • Castor and Pollux Binocular Telescope
  • CEDAR (Cosmic Epoch Deep Array for Reionization)
  • Cerro Guanaco Viejo Telescope
  • Cerro Lechuza Robotic Telescope
  • Cerro Niebla Baja Telescope
  • Cerro Ojo de Agua Telescope
  • Cerro Tres Vientos Observatory
  • Cerro Vigilante Telescope
  • CHIRP (Compact Hydrogen Intensity Radio Pathfinder)
  • Chromosphere Vacuum Tower
  • Cinder Saddle Robotic Telescope
  • Clarity Mission Telescope
  • Clear Skies Optional

C, continued

  • Clearwater
  • Clockwatcher Transit Timing Telescope
  • Closer Look
  • Clouded Judgment
  • Cogwork Sky Engine
  • Col des Étoiles Telescope
  • Cold Harbor Array
  • Cold Spring Hydrogen Mapper
  • Collimate Me Maybe
  • Colony Ship Spotter
  • Coma Chameleon
  • COMET (Compact Orbital Monitor for Evolving Transients)
  • Comet Catcher
  • Condor Roost Telescope
  • Continental Baseline Network

C, continued

  • Cor Caroli
  • Core Collapse Alert Telescope
  • Corona Tower Telescope
  • Cosmic Colander
  • Cosmic Dawn Mapper
  • Cosmic Noon Telescope
  • Cosmic Shear Camera
  • CRANE (Cosmic Ray Air-Shower Neutrino Experiment)
  • Crater Gazer
  • Cross-Continent Interferometer
  • Crossword Gamma Camera
  • Cumbre Fría Infrared Telescope
  • Curious Eye
  • Cyclops One
  • Cylinder Reflector Field

D: 31 names

  • Dark Between Stars Telescope
  • Dark Frame
  • Dark Matter Halo Mapper
  • Dark Site Darling
  • Darkling
  • Dawn Signal Interferometer
  • Dean's List Dob
  • Declination
  • Deep Ear Seven
  • Deep Sky Dish Marigold

D, continued

  • Delacroix-Mbaye Space Telescope
  • DELTA (Deep Extragalactic Lensing Telescope Array)
  • Deneb Deep Sky Telescope
  • Dew Process
  • Dewdrop
  • Dhruva Polar Telescope
  • Did I Leave the Cap On
  • Diffractive Membrane Telescope
  • Distance Ladder Telescope
  • Distant Early Light Array

D, continued

  • Dobasaurus
  • Dobbin
  • Double Star Darling
  • DOVE (Deep Optical Variability Experiment)
  • Drift Buoy Telescope Theta
  • Dry Fork Caldera Telescope
  • Dry Lake Millimeter Array
  • Dunmere Astronomical Society Twenty-Inch
  • DUSK (Deep Ultraviolet Survey of Kilonovae)
  • Dusty
  • Dwarven Deepsky Lens

E: 17 names

  • Earth Twin Seeker
  • Echo Fathom
  • Eclipsing Binary Factory
  • Edge of Sight
  • Embarrassingly Large Array
  • EMBER (Early Millimeter Background Experiment Receiver)
  • Emberfall Infrared Explorer
  • Emeritus Professor's Telescope

E, continued

  • Emu Plain Square Array
  • Encke Comet Telescope
  • Endymion Moon Watcher
  • Eratosthenes Baseline Telescope
  • Esfahani Astrometry Telescope
  • Evening Star Telescope
  • Exomoon Search Photometer
  • Eye of Horus
  • Eyeball

F: 43 names

  • Faculty Lounge Spyglass
  • Faint Fuzzy
  • Faint Galaxy Census Telescope
  • False Color Me Surprised
  • Family Size Telescope
  • Far Lantern Relay Telescope
  • Far Side Dish Colony
  • Farfield One
  • Farseer
  • Farside Crater Dipole Array
  • Farside Dark Ages Radio Telescope
  • Fast Blue Transient Hunter
  • Fast Cadence Sky Monitor
  • Featherweight

F, continued

  • Fenwick-Rao Twin Telescopes
  • Ferreira Southern Sky Telescope
  • Field of Dreams Flattener
  • Finder's Keepers
  • First Contact Watchtower
  • First Stars Explorer
  • Five Minute X-ray Rocket Telescope
  • Flamsteed Star Cataloguer
  • FLARE (Fast Lightcurve Array for Red-Dwarf Eruptions)
  • Flat Field
  • Fleming and Maury Twin Astrographs
  • FLINT (Far-Infrared Line Intensity Nulling Telescope)
  • Flotsam Debris Tracking Telescope
  • Flying Telescope Windrider

F, continued

  • Focal Plane One
  • FOCUS (Flare Onset Camera for Ultraviolet Spectra)
  • Fomalhaut Disk Imager
  • Formation Flying X-ray Telescope
  • Fossil Light Mapper
  • Four Kelvin Far-Infrared Telescope
  • Four Rivers Astronomy Club Radio Telescope
  • Freddie the Refractor
  • Fresnel Lens Space Telescope
  • Fringe Benefits
  • Fringe Finder Array
  • FROG (Fast Radio-Burst Observing Grid)
  • Frostline Shoulder Telescope
  • Frozen Toes Reflector
  • Full Moon Again

G: 24 names

  • Galactic Archaeology Spectrograph
  • Galactic Plane Mapper Dish
  • Galaxy Grabber
  • Galle Outer Planets Telescope
  • Gassendi Transit Glass
  • Genesis Light Telescope
  • Ghost Juniper Ridge Telescope
  • Gimlet
  • Girls in Science Club Telescope
  • Glacier Core Neutrino Telescope
  • Globular Cluster Census Camera
  • GNOMON (Ground Network of Meter-Class Optical Nodes)

G, continued

  • Go-To Sleep
  • Golden Mirror Two
  • Goliath
  • Goshawk
  • Grad Student Special
  • Grandfather's Spyglass
  • Gravitational Lens Time Delay Monitor
  • Gravity Lens Focal Station
  • Great Southern Baseline Array
  • Green Curtain All-Sky Imager
  • Greenhalgh Quasar Telescope
  • Guaranteed Overcast

H: 39 names

  • Hailing Frequency Watch
  • HALO (High Altitude Lensing Observatory)
  • Halo Stream Mapper
  • Halvorsen Deep Field Telescope
  • Haraldsdottir Aurora Imager
  • Hargreave Faint Object Telescope
  • Harlowe University Teaching Telescope
  • Harriot Moon Glass
  • Hartigan Deep Sky Telescope
  • Heimdall
  • Heliopause Listening Post
  • Helios Ridge Coronagraph
  • Heliosheath Ear

H, continued

  • Her Ladyship's Seven-Foot Reflector
  • HERON (High Energy Rapid Observation Network)
  • Hevelius Lunar Mapper
  • High Contrast Planet Imager
  • High Desert Gamma-Ray Telescope
  • High Flyer Infrared Balloon
  • High Tarn Zenith Telescope
  • Hina
  • Hlidskjalf
  • Hollingworth First Light Telescope
  • Hollow Wind Plateau Telescope
  • Hollowell Steerable Dish
  • Home Star Monitor

H, continued

  • Homeward Beacon Telescope
  • Honey, I Bought Another One
  • Horizon Four
  • Horizon Scanner
  • Horn Antenna Hill
  • Horrocks Transit Telescope
  • Hour Angle
  • HUGE (Hundred-Meter Ultra Giant Experiment)
  • Huginn and Muninn
  • HUSH (Hydrogen Ultra-Sensitive Hunter)
  • Hush Hollow Radio Telescope
  • Hypatia Wide Angle Telescope
  • Hyperion Reflector

I: 18 names

  • Ibarra Coronagraph Telescope
  • Ibex Pass Alpine Telescope
  • Ibn Yunus Eclipse Timing Telescope
  • Icarus Solar Telescope
  • Ice Dome Infrared Telescope
  • Ice Shelf Radio Neutrino Array
  • Impractically Vast Array
  • Infinity Focus
  • Inflatable Reflector Demonstrator

I, continued

  • Intensity Interferometer Twins
  • Intensity Mapping Pathfinder
  • Interstellar Dust Polarimeter
  • Interstellar Medium Watch
  • Ironbark Pathfinder Array
  • Ishikawa Hard X-ray Telescope
  • Isla Lobos Marinos Telescope
  • Isla Quieta Southern Telescope
  • Ix Chel Lunar Telescope

J: 7 names

  • Janssen Eclipse Chaser
  • Janus Twin Telescope
  • Jetstream Drifter Submillimeter Telescope
  • Jumbo Sky Survey Telescope
  • Junior Astronomers Club Telescope
  • Jupiter Storm Watch Telescope
  • Jupiter's Paparazzo

K: 15 names

  • KAPPA (Kilo-Aperture Phased Pulsar Array)
  • Kelpie Downs Transient Telescope
  • Khonsu Lunar Telescope
  • Kilbride Temperate Worlds Telescope
  • Kilometer Arm Gravity Telescope
  • Kilometer Baseline Optical Interferometer
  • Kilometer Mirror Dream Telescope
  • Kilonova Chaser
  • KITE (Kilonova Infrared Transient Explorer)
  • KIWI (Kilometer Interferometer for Wide-Field Imaging)
  • Kochab Guide Scope
  • Kokerboom Ridge Observatory
  • Kowalczyk Dark Sky Mapper
  • Kraken-Spotter
  • Kuiper Hush Station

L: 48 names

  • Lacaille Southern Reflector
  • Lagrange Five Deep Listener
  • Lakeshore Amateur Astronomers Big Dob
  • Lamplighter
  • Largest Telescope Until the Next One
  • Lassell Moons Telescope
  • Last Target, I Promise
  • Lazy Susan
  • Leclercq Lensing Telescope
  • LENS (Lensing and Exoplanet Near-Infrared Survey)
  • Lens Cap Still On
  • Lens of the Wandering Stars

L, continued

  • Light Bucket Larry
  • Light Cone
  • Light Pollution Solution
  • Lightcurve Factory
  • Limb Darkening
  • Limit of Vision
  • Lindqvist Ultraviolet Explorer
  • Lippershey Heritage Telescope
  • Lissajous Orbit Telescope
  • Little Green Refractor
  • Little Lacaille
  • Little Red

L, continued

  • Lizard Tail Mesa Telescope
  • Llano Sordo Millimeter Telescope
  • Lobster Eye X-ray Monitor
  • Lodestar
  • Lonely Vigil
  • Long Exposure
  • Longacre Baseline Interferometer
  • Longfellow
  • Longsight
  • Longview Three
  • Lookback
  • Lookout

L, continued

  • LOON (Lunar Orbiting Optical Node)
  • Loupe
  • Lucille
  • Lucky Break Imaging Telescope
  • Ludicrously Long Focal Length Telescope
  • Lumen Two
  • Lunar Crater Liquid Mirror Telescope
  • Lunar Impact Flash Monitor
  • Lundgren Polar Orbit Telescope
  • Lyman Forest Spectrograph
  • Lynceus
  • Lynx Eye

M: 63 names

  • MacAllister High-Energy Telescope
  • Maggie the Mak
  • Magister Telluro's Comet Glass
  • MAGPIE (Multi-Aperture Galaxy Pair Imaging Experiment)
  • Mak Attack
  • Mama Killa
  • MAPLE (Millimeter Array for Planetary Line Emission)
  • Marama
  • Marchetti Infrared Telescope
  • Maria Cunitz Planet Tracker
  • Maria Kirch Comet Seeker
  • Marmot Col Robotic Telescope

M, continued

  • Marram Flats Meter-Wave Telescope
  • Marrowby Polytechnic Radio Dish
  • Mary Somerville Reflector
  • Matariki Telescope
  • Members' Night Reflector
  • Meridian Array
  • Meridian Flip Flop
  • MESA (Millimeter Emission Survey Array)
  • Mesa Perdida Reflector
  • Messier Chaser
  • Messier Nebula Imager
  • Meteor Shower Radiant Mapper
  • Microlensing Planet Watch

M, continued

  • Midnight
  • Milky Way Bulge Monitor
  • Milliarcsecond
  • Million Star Radial Velocity Machine
  • Mimir's Well
  • Mind-Bogglingly Massive Mirror
  • MINNOW (Mini Imaging Network for Near-Earth Object Watch)
  • Mintaka, Alnilam and Alnitak
  • Mira Variable Star Telescope
  • Mirror Mirror
  • Mirror of the Winter Court
  • Mizar and Alcor

M, continued

  • Mnemosyne Archive Telescope
  • Modestly Gigantic Telescope
  • Monte Lucero Solar Tower
  • Monte Sin Nubes Observatory
  • Montemayor Deep Imaging Telescope
  • Monumentally Oversized Dish
  • Moon Muncher
  • Moonbeam Collector
  • Moonpie
  • Moonpool Mirror
  • Moonrise Telescope
  • MOOSE (Multi-Object Optical Spectroscopy Experiment)
  • Morning Star Telescope

M, continued

  • Morwenna Trask Memorial Telescope
  • MOSS (Multi-Object Southern Spectrograph)
  • MOTH (Mid-Infrared Observatory for Transient Hunting)
  • Mount Ansgar Reflector
  • Mount Brannoch Twin Telescope
  • Mount Edrington Great Reflector
  • Mount Elowen Southern Reflector
  • Mount Ferreby Twin Telescopes
  • Mount Hollis Northern Telescope
  • Mount Osgood Astrograph
  • Mount Ullesby Schmidt Camera
  • Mulga Plain Compact Array
  • Mwangi Stellar Census Telescope

N: 31 names

  • NADIR (Nulling Array for Disk Imaging Research)
  • Nakagawa Planet Finder
  • Narrow Field Needle
  • Near-Earth Object Sentry Telescope
  • Nearby Galaxy Legacy Telescope
  • Nebula Nabber
  • New Moon, Who Dis
  • NEWT (Near-Earth Watch Telescope)
  • Newtonian Ned
  • Nicole-Reine Lepaute Comet Tracker

N, continued

  • Night Goggles
  • Night Heron
  • Night Owl
  • Nightfall Explorer
  • Nightingale
  • Nightjar
  • Nightsilver Mirror
  • Nightwatch
  • Nine Light-Hour Baseline
  • Nine Moons Spyglass

N, continued

  • No Bars Basin Radio Telescope
  • Noctilucent Cloud Camera
  • Nocturne Two
  • Noonmark Solar Explorer
  • North Quad Rooftop Telescope
  • Northern Lantern
  • Northern Variable Star Patrol
  • NOVA (Nearby Object Variability Array)
  • Novakova Time-Domain Telescope
  • Nulling Interferometer Pathfinder
  • Nyame Sky Telescope

O: 33 names

  • Objectively Speaking
  • Obstruction Junction
  • Occultation Timing Network
  • Odin's Remaining Eye
  • Oduya Dust Mapper
  • Oilbird
  • Okabe Cool Stars Telescope
  • Okonkwo Space Telescope
  • Olbers Dark Sky Telescope
  • Old Bessel
  • Old Blue

O, continued

  • Old Crater Rim Telescope
  • Old Faithful Dob
  • Old Main Tower Refractor
  • Old Observatory Hill Refractor
  • Old Reliable
  • Oldest Light Telescope
  • OOPS (Overly Optimistic Planet Survey)
  • Oort Watch Station
  • Origami Mirror Space Telescope
  • Orion's Admirer
  • Orphan Afterglow Search Telescope

O, continued

  • Orrery Eye
  • Other Suns Telescope
  • OTTER (Optical Transient Tracking and Early Response)
  • Out of Focus Group
  • Outback Fast Burst Monitor
  • Outer Planet Weather Telescope
  • Outer System Ear
  • Outpost Stillness
  • Outreach Scope Number Three
  • OWLET (Optical Wide-Field Lens for Exoplanet Transits)
  • Oyelaran Lagrange Telescope

P: 45 names

  • Painted Scarp Automated Telescope
  • Pale Blue Dot Finder
  • Pampa Silenciosa Array
  • Pathlight
  • Patience
  • Peewee
  • Peiresc Nebula Glass
  • Pellworth Academy Dome Telescope
  • Perihelion One
  • Periodic Error Prone
  • Persistence of Vision
  • Petrakis Starlight Explorer
  • Phaethon Sun Tracker
  • Phoebe Ring Radio Telescope
  • Photon Counter

P, continued

  • Photon Finish
  • Photon Hog
  • Photon Tide
  • Piazzi Asteroid Finder
  • Pico das Andorinhas Telescope
  • PIKA (Polar Infrared Kilonova Array)
  • PING (Pulsar Interferometer for Nanohertz Gravity)
  • Pinpoint
  • Pinprick
  • PIPIT (Polar Infrared Photometric Imaging Telescope)
  • Pipsqueak
  • Planet Peeker
  • Planetarium Lobby Telescope
  • Pleiades Peeper
  • Pocket Size Space Telescope

P, continued

  • Polar Plateau Terahertz Telescope
  • Polar Vortex Balloon Telescope
  • Polyphemus Reflector
  • Potoo
  • Preposterously Long Baseline Array
  • Primary Suspect
  • Prime Focus
  • Probe Tender Telescope
  • Prometheus Light Catcher
  • Prominence Patrol Telescope
  • Pronghorn Butte Reflector
  • Protoplanet Nursery Telescope
  • Ptarmigan Dome Reflector
  • Pulsar Clock Gravity Array
  • Pulsar Timing Dish

Q: 6 names

  • Quadrature One
  • Quietude
  • Quillfeather College Sixteen-Inch
  • Quintanilla Infrared Explorer
  • Quite Big Telescope
  • Quiver Tree Plateau Telescope

R: 24 names

  • Radio Quiet Zone Telescope
  • Rail Track Movable Array
  • Rasalhague
  • Rather More Mirrors Than Needed
  • Rattleweed Mesa Telescope
  • Rautio Microwave Telescope
  • Redshift Nine
  • Redshifted Hydrogen Array
  • Reflect on That
  • Refractor Rex
  • Regiomontanus Comet Tracker
  • Reionization Lantern

R, continued

  • Restless Dwarf Flare Monitor
  • Riccioli Moon Mapper
  • RIDGE (Radio Interferometer for Dark-Age Galaxy Evolution)
  • Ridge to Ridge Interferometer
  • Rigel Blue Telescope
  • Right Ascension
  • Ring Finder
  • Riverbend Stargazers Club Reflector
  • ROBIN (Robotic Optical Burst Imaging Network)
  • Rocker Box Roxy
  • Rogue Planet Lookout
  • Rusty

S: 95 names

  • Sadr Nebula Imager
  • Sagebrush Submillimeter Telescope
  • Salt Mine Neutrino Telescope
  • Saltglass Desert Telescope
  • Saltpan Interferometer
  • Satellite Streak Patrol Camera
  • Saturn Ring Occultation Camera
  • Saturn Seeker
  • Scarpellini Meteor Camera
  • Scheiner Sunspot Telescope
  • Schmidt the Kid
  • Science Center Solar Telescope
  • Scope Creep

S, continued

  • Scout Troop Starter Scope
  • Seafloor Light String Array
  • Second Look
  • Secondary Thoughts
  • Sednoid Belt Listening Post
  • Seeing Disk
  • Seeing Is Believing
  • Selene's Mirror
  • Seniors' Stargazing Group Telescope
  • Sentinel of the Outer Dark
  • Shackleton Rim Infrared Telescope
  • Sharp Eyes
  • Shen Kuo Pole Star Telescope
  • Shepherd's Flat Radio Dish

S, continued

  • Shoebox Exoplanet Telescope
  • Shorty
  • Sierra del Búho Reflector
  • Signal Hill, Eris Orbit
  • Signal Keeper Station
  • Silent Mile Listening Array
  • Simon Marius Jovian Telescope
  • Sir Isaac
  • Six Telescope Optical Array
  • Skerry Head Island Telescope
  • Skipping Stone X-ray Telescope
  • Skippy
  • Sky-Pirate's Monocular

S, continued

  • Skylark
  • Skyreader
  • SLATE (Southern Large Aperture Telescope Experiment)
  • Slew You Later
  • Slipher Redshift Reflector
  • SLOTH (Slow Lightcurve Observation Telescope Hub)
  • Smallest Viable Telescope
  • Smallsat Transit Photometer
  • Smudge
  • SNAIL (Slow Nova and Interacting-Binary Lookout)
  • Solace Deep Sky Explorer
  • Solar Limb Spectroheliograph
  • Solar System Baseline Array
  • Solberg Heliophysics Telescope

S, continued

  • Solstice Two
  • Some Assembly Required
  • Sorvino Spectroscopic Telescope
  • Southern Lantern
  • Southern Sky Transient Survey
  • Spinning Mercury Mirror Telescope
  • Sputnik
  • Squint
  • St. Ethelreda's School Refractor
  • Star Hopper Deluxe
  • Star Sipper
  • Star-Thief's Spyglass
  • Starfarer's Lens

S, continued

  • Starglass of the Ninth Tower
  • Starlight Funnel
  • Starshade Rendezvous Telescope
  • Starstream
  • Starwhisper Outpost
  • Static Free Valley Telescope
  • Stavros Ultraviolet Imager
  • Steady Gaze
  • Steady Hand Adaptive Optics Testbed
  • Steam-Driven Star Mirror
  • Stellar Seismology Photometer
  • Still Not Big Enough Telescope
  • Stillwater Pulsar Telescope
  • STOAT (Southern Twilight Observer for Asteroid Tracking)

S, continued

  • Stormglass Farseer
  • Stormpetrel Island Telescope
  • Stovepipe
  • Stratosphere Jet Telescope
  • Streetlight Fighter
  • Stubby
  • Suitcase Radio Telescope
  • Sunlens Telescope at 550 AU
  • Sunspot Cycle Solar Telescope
  • Surprisingly Compact Telescope
  • Surya Sun Telescope
  • Suspiciously Large Telescope
  • Swarm Aperture Telescope
  • Szymborski Redshift Telescope

T: 259 names

  • Tablelands Dark Site Telescope
  • Takahara Wide Field Telescope
  • Tangerine Dream Machine
  • Tanimoto X-ray Imager
  • Tank
  • TARN (Transient Alert Robotic Network)
  • Tarsier
  • Tavakoli Planetary Telescope
  • Tawny
  • Technosignature Trawler
  • Ten Meter Dish Kestrel
  • Ten Year Sky Movie Telescope
  • Termination Shock Telescope
  • TERN (Transient Event Response Network)

T, continued

  • Tezcatlipoca Mirror
  • The Absolute Unit Telescope
  • The Achromat of Saint Brannoc
  • The Adequately Sized Telescope
  • The Admiral's Night Glass
  • The Aerial Telescope of Old Thessaly Lane
  • The Airship Navigator's Glass
  • The Al-Sufi Great Reflector
  • The Alchemist's Sun Mirror
  • The Alumni Refractor
  • The Ansgar Hundred-Inch
  • The Answering Machine
  • The Apothecary's Night Glass
  • The Astrologer's Brass Eye

T, continued

  • The Astronomer's Folly
  • The Backyard Beast
  • The Balcony Buddy
  • The Bazooka
  • The Beast
  • The Behemoth of Castle Orrin
  • The Bigger Than Planned Telescope
  • The Biggest One Yet Telescope
  • The Bird Feeder
  • The Brass and Mahogany Three-Inch
  • The Brass Lady
  • The Brass Leviathan Lens
  • The Brewer's Refractor
  • The Cannon
  • The Captain's Long Glass

T, continued

  • The Cartographer's Sky Lens
  • The Checkerboard Array
  • The Clockmaker's Equatorial
  • The Clockwork Equatorial
  • The Clockwork Farseer
  • The Cloud Magnet
  • The Coffee Can
  • The Cold Ear of Charon
  • The Colossal Light Bucket
  • The Comet Sweeper
  • The Comet-Caller
  • The Committee Approved Big Telescope
  • The Cracked Objective
  • The Department Head's Refractor

T, continued

  • The Diffraction Faction
  • The Dipole Garden
  • The Dobfather
  • The Donated Refractor
  • The Drainpipe
  • The Duchess of Varnholt's Refractor
  • The Eclipse Glass of Karth
  • The Economy Size Telescope
  • The Elven Long Glass
  • The Engineering Club Dish
  • The Exhibition Refractor
  • The Eyepiece of Work
  • The Faint Fuzzy Finder
  • The Farseeing Glass of Ysolde

T, continued

  • The Ferreby Twins
  • The Field Trip Scope
  • The Finder Minder
  • The First Silvered Mirror
  • The Flamsteed Sixty
  • The Founders' Reflector
  • The Frankly Enormous Telescope
  • The Garage Queen
  • The Garden Reflector
  • The Gargantuan Glass
  • The Gearwright's Great Glass
  • The Giant's Monocle
  • The Glass of Seven Heavens
  • The Glassmaker's Masterwork
  • The Globular Gobbler

T, continued

  • The Grab and Go
  • The Grant Funded Astrograph
  • The Gray Ghost
  • The Great Big Southern Eye
  • The Great Dew Shield Robbery
  • The Great Ear
  • The Great Equatorial of Dunmarrow
  • The Great Mural Telescope
  • The Great Southern Refractor
  • The Great Wooden Tube
  • The Green Machine
  • The Griffin Rider's Spyglass
  • The Guildhall Great Lens
  • The Half-Pipe Telescope

T, continued

  • The Halvorsen
  • The Harbor Master's Glass
  • The Hedge Wizard's Lens
  • The Heliostat Hall
  • The Hermit Telescope
  • The Honestly Too Big Telescope
  • The Ironmaster's Reflector
  • The Itty Bitty Finder Scope
  • The Kids' Corner Telescope
  • The King Size Reflector
  • The Lantern of Far Seeing
  • The Last Antenna
  • The Lattice Tube Reflector
  • The Lawn Ornament
  • The Lens That Crossed the Ocean

T, continued

  • The Library Telescope
  • The Lighthouse Board Telescope
  • The Lighthouse Keeper
  • The Lippershey Spyglass
  • The Listening Mile
  • The Loaner Dob
  • The Locksmith's Folding Spyglass
  • The Long Quiet
  • The Long Tom
  • The Long Weekend Scope
  • The Longitude Telescope
  • The Lookout's Friend
  • The Mahogany Tube
  • The Mammoth Mirror

T, continued

  • The Merchant's Folly
  • The Merely Medium Telescope
  • The Midnight Rider
  • The Mile Wide Dish
  • The Mill Owner's Great Telescope
  • The Mirror Grinding Class Telescope
  • The Money Pit
  • The Monk's Long Glass
  • The Moonwright's Lens
  • The Mosquito Buffet
  • The Museum Lawn Telescope
  • The Navigator's Truth
  • The Navy Yard Refractor
  • The Neck Cramp

T, continued

  • The Night Clerk
  • The Observing Field Loaner
  • The Okonkwo
  • The Old Comet Seeker
  • The Old Nine-Inch
  • The Old Transit
  • The Oracle Telescope
  • The Other Hobby
  • The Paint Bucket
  • The Parallax View
  • The Parks Department Telescope
  • The Parlor Refractor
  • The Patient Ear
  • The Penultimately Large Telescope
  • The Photon Vacuum

T, continued

  • The Physics Roof Telescope
  • The Pirate Queen's Far Glass
  • The Planet Sized Interferometer
  • The Polar Alignment Blues
  • The Porch Scope
  • The Pretty Big Dish
  • The Public Night Telescope
  • The Railway Time Telescope
  • The Really Rather Large Telescope
  • The Refractor Factor
  • The Riccioli Refractor
  • The Rope and Ladder Reflector
  • The Royal Stargazer's Tube
  • The Runed Refractor

T, continued

  • The Scaffold Telescope
  • The Schoolmaster's Achromat
  • The Scrying Tube
  • The Second-Hand Equatorial
  • The Seer's Tube of Brindlemoor
  • The Sesquicentennial Refractor
  • The Seven Dish Line
  • The Shepherd Array
  • The Shoebox
  • The Sidewalk Telescope
  • The Silver Monocle of Maren Vale
  • The Silver on Glass Reflector
  • The Sky Straw
  • The Slightly Larger Successor Telescope
  • The Sling and Pulley Reflector

T, continued

  • The Slow Listener
  • The Society Twelve-Inch
  • The Somewhat Bigger Telescope
  • The Speculum Giant
  • The Star Party Workhorse
  • The Star-Clerk's Instrument
  • The Stupendous Segmented Telescope
  • The Subscription Telescope
  • The Suburban Survivor
  • The Sultan's Star Glass
  • The Surveyor General's Zenith Sector
  • The Takahara Scope
  • The Tarnished Mirror
  • The Telescope Formerly Known as Large

T, continued

  • The Thesis Machine
  • The Time Ball Transit
  • The Too Heavy to Ship Telescope
  • The Town Clock Transit
  • The Trailer Queen
  • The Trash Can
  • The Travel Buddy
  • The Unblinking Eye
  • The Unnecessarily Huge Reflector
  • The Valley Bowl Telescope
  • The Very Very Deep Field Telescope
  • The Vicar's Transit Instrument
  • The Volunteer Built Reflector
  • The Water Heater

T, continued

  • The Weeknight Warrior
  • The Weight-Driven Astrograph
  • The Whaling Captain's Glass
  • The Wheelbarrow Scope
  • The White Whale
  • The Whopping Great Reflector
  • The Wider Than the Road Mirror
  • The Widow's Bequest Refractor
  • The Wrong Star Aligner
  • The Yard Cannon
  • There and Back Lunar Ranging Telescope
  • Thornfield College Student Telescope
  • Thorvaldsen Far-Infrared Telescope
  • Thousand Antenna Field
  • Thousand Fiber Spectrograph

T, continued

  • Thousand Year Stare
  • Three Sisters Dishes
  • Three Spacecraft Gravity Triangle
  • Thuban Pole Telescope
  • Tidal Disruption Event Finder
  • TIDE (Transient Infrared Detection Experiment)
  • Tin Roof Radio Telescope
  • Tiresias
  • Titan's Looking Glass
  • Titanic Aperture Telescope
  • TOAD (Transient Optical Alert Detector)
  • Tobias Mayer Lunar Telescope
  • Tower-Top Starcatcher
  • Trailing Trojan Listening Post

T, continued

  • Trans-Neptunian Sky Patrol
  • Tremendously Wide Field Telescope
  • Tri-County Astronomical Society Club Scope
  • Triton Farside Dish
  • Truss Me
  • Truss Tube Tessa
  • Trusty
  • Tubby
  • Tube or Not Tube
  • Tumbleweed Low-Frequency Array
  • Tundra Edge Dish Array
  • Twilight Arc
  • Twilight Comet Patrol
  • Twinkle Twinkle Little Scope
  • Two Oceans Peak Telescope

U: 7 names

  • Uncle Albert
  • Underground Gravity Wave Antenna
  • Underhill Nearby Stars Telescope
  • Unreasonably Large Telescope
  • Up Way Too Late
  • Upside Down Again
  • Urania's Glass

V: 10 names

  • Vandermolen Near-Infrared Telescope
  • Vanishing Point
  • Vantage
  • Venkataraman Gamma-Ray Telescope
  • Venus Twilight Photometer
  • Vindemiatrix
  • Voidglass Station
  • Voidwatcher's Lens
  • Volcán Dormido Telescope
  • VOLE (Very Ordinary Little Explorer)

W: 28 names

  • Wang Zhenyi Eclipse Telescope
  • Water Tank Gamma Array
  • Wayfarer's Eye
  • Waypoint Two
  • Weak Lensing Survey Telescope
  • Wexcombe Institute One-Meter
  • Which Way Is North
  • Whisper Catcher Twelve
  • Whisper Plain Array
  • Whitcombe Orbital Telescope
  • White Dwarf Timing Telescope
  • White Light Flare Camera
  • Whole Sky Every Night Survey
  • Wide Angle Wanderer

W, continued

  • Wide Field Planet Hunter
  • Wide Plains Synthesis Telescope
  • Wideband Sky Monitor
  • Williamina Fleming Stellar Classifier
  • Windless Col Telescope
  • Windmill Flat Phased Array
  • Windscour Plateau Infrared Telescope
  • Winterover Microwave Telescope
  • Witchlight Spyglass
  • Wobbles
  • WOMBAT (Wide Optical Monitor for Bursts and Transients)
  • WOW (Wide Optical Watcher)
  • WREN (Wide-Field Rapid Exoplanet Network)
  • Wyrmbone Spyglass

Y: 5 names

  • Y-Arm Interferometer
  • Yarrabin Tableland Telescope
  • YAWN (Yearlong All-Night Wide-Field Network)
  • Yildirim Transit Telescope
  • Young Star Disk Imager

Z: 6 names

  • ZENITH (Zodiacal Emission and Near-Infrared Thermal Hunter)
  • Zenith Staring Liquid Mirror
  • Zhang Heng Sky Monitor
  • Zielinski Starshade Telescope
  • Zodiacal Light Imager
  • Zubenelgenubi Wide Field Camera