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All right, I'll start off with the phases of the moon for this month. We had a first quarter moon back on the first, a full moon on the ninth, the last quarter was on the sixteenth. We've got a new moon coming up on the twenty-third. And the bulletin for this evening will be about that particular new moon. So stay tuned for that little interesting article I got today about that new moon occurring this weekend on the twenty-third. On the first quarter moon again on the thirty-first, the moon was at perigee, its closest approach to the earth this month, back on the fourteenth. It was 229,365 miles from earth. The moon will be at apogee, its farthest point away from the earth this month. On the twenty-ninth, it will be 251,374 miles from earth. Planetary highlights for August. The longer nights of August beckon with several treats this month. Saturn and Neptune undergo their second conjunction of the year, appearing together in a low-power telescope. IPs, telescopic observers, also get two shadow transits of Titan across Saturn. Early risers enjoy a spectacular conjunction of the two brightest planets in the sky, Venus and Jupiter. And that was back on the twelfth. We missed that one. The same day the Perseid meteor shower peaks. I'd also like to hear some observation reports from anybody that got to see some of the Perseid. That excerpt is from the Starry Magazine, August 2025, page 28, and that's without the ad libs.