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Let me go back just a little bit. Looking into September, on September 7th, we've got a full moon occurring, a total lunar eclipse. However, those of us in the States will not be able to see that. That is occurring on the opposite side of the Earth, centered basically on India, north and south, all the way from pole to pole, and extending across Asia, most of Africa, Australia. So the eastern hemisphere is going to get to see that particular full lunar eclipse. It may be broadcast on the Internet somewhere, so you might be able to look at that that way. We can look forward to at least maybe chasing that via the Internet coming up next month. That will be Sunday, a week from this coming Sunday, so we'll look forward to that. And this is PI0, AR Net Control for the Colorado Astronomy Net, continuing with planets. We've got Mercury. See, Mercury was at greatest western elongation, or about 19 degrees west of the Sun on the 19th. That's actually meaning it's leading the Sun, so it's going to be as high as it was going to get in the east. Mercury is now rising about 5.30 a.m. by month's end. Mercury is visible about 30 minutes before sunrise, just above the eastern horizon. Mercury has moved into the constellation of Leo shining at magnitude 0.7.