| FOV | Field of view |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| CNES | Centre national d’études spatiales |
| TESS | Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite |
| CHEOPS | CHaracterizing ExOPlanets Satellite |
| PLATO | PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars |
| CoRoT | Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits |
| HEO | High Earth Orbit |
| LEO | Low Earth Orbit |
| CCD | Charge Coupled Device |
| PI | Physik Instrumente |
| ppm | parts per million |
| S/N | Signal to Noise ratio |
| vmag | visual magnitude |