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Okay, I will start that one over again. Uranus will be stationary on the 6th and neither appearing to move forward nor backward relative to the background stars. What that means is it is moving right along with the stars through the night sky. Uranus rises at 1057 p.m. on the 1st, about 858 p.m. by months end. For those of you who have been following along, you notice that these planets are now, have made their journey through the early morning hours and are starting to appear in the evening sky now. So we will look forward to those apparitions in the fall and the winter as well. Look for Uranus to the southeast in the late evening. Uranus is in the constellation of Taurus, shining at magnitude 5.7. We have Neptune will be at opposition on the 23rd, rising as the sun sets. Neptune rises at 820 p.m. on the 1st, about 621 p.m. by months end. Look for Neptune low to the east, late in the evening, within one degree of Saturn all month. Uranus is in the constellation of Pisces, shining at magnitude 7.7. So Neptune is a full seven magnitudes greater than Saturn, which means it is well over 100 times dimmer, probably closer to 130 times dimmer than Saturn. But for these two, they are very close together. So if you can find Saturn rising, you may be able to see Neptune. It will be just almost horizontal with it at a nine o'clock position soon after it rises within about two full moon widths, maybe a little closer than that. Look for that. Even though it appears that Neptune is rising a few minutes earlier than Saturn, it is just because of the geometry of the orbit. It is not leading it. It almost appears like it is trailing it. Saturn is a little bit below it when it rises. It will swing around and you can watch them all night.