... In typical nightly use, the wide field and planetary telescope and cameras record images of favorably placed objects in the sky, including constellations, bright variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets. ... Shared Skies telescopes are available for use by students at the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland, and by teachers and students in middle and high schools mentored by faculty at the universities. ...

The xpamb program can act as a "classical" message bus interface between clients and servers. A client can send a data request to the message bus, which then interfaces with multiple servers and returns the data back to the client. ... For example, if the -info switch is used: xpaget xpamb -info foo then the info about that stored data buffer will be returned. If the -data is used with a specific name: xpaget xpamb -data foo then the stored data itself will be returned. ... data [name] . ...