... 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 xpans name server is an XPA-enabled program that is used to manage the names and ports of XPA access points. It is started automatically when an XPA access point is registered. ... The name server itself has an XPA access point names xpans registered through which you can find out information about currently registered access points (assuming you have access to the name server; see XPA Access Control for more information). ... By default, proxy connections are not allowed by xpans. ...