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All right, we're at the tail end of a couple of meteor showers. The northern delta meteor shower extends from July 16th to September 10th. The maximum occurred back on August 13th. The hourly rate reached a high of 10. You may still see a couple of those shooting through the skies. The same with the Perseids meteor shower. It's generally visible between July 23rd and August 22nd. Maximum occurred back on August 12th, 13th. The hourly rate typically reaches about 80, although some years have been as low as 4 and as high as 200. The meteors tend to be very fast, possess an average magnitude of 2.3, and leave persistent trains. However, the full moon this month will allow many of the Perseids to be seen, but the brightest ones might have been seen a few of the brightest ones. So this year was not a good year to spot the Perseids. However, I'd love to hear some observation reports for, I know there were some people that did get out to try to observe some of the meteors as well. It was pretty well cloudy most evenings here in the Denver area. Plus we had a ton of smoke, which was doing a lot to reflect a lot of the ground light into the skies around us as well. I didn't get to see any of the Perseids myself. We do have a comment, comment C, 2024 E1. We're chose is passing through the constellation of Hercules, this one shining around 12th magnitude, so a 10-inch scope or greater. And dark skies will be needed to view it. This is expected to possibly brighten to a naked eye object by January of next year, maybe about 4th magnitude. So we'll look forward to that comment brightening and being able to see that. That's it for the local news. This is KI0 ARNet control for the Colorado astronomy net.