Astronomers measure star brightness using the magnitude scale. All the really bright stars we see are magnitude 1 or brighter ...

SBE is an OSI layer 6 presentation for encoding and decoding binary application messages for low-latency financial applications. This repository contains the reference implementations in Java, C++, ...

This is not home to a lot of bright stars, but you can find the interesting variable binary Algol about 8 degrees to the northwest. (My undergraduate advisor discovered a third component to this ...