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I've got that posted up on YouTube right now. The one thing that I like about this particular website is you can put in your home coordinates. If you look in the upper right-hand corner, you'll see that I'm logged in. I can put in my home coordinates for the Denver area. It will give me time for ISS passes. I'm actually not seeing too many decent ISS passes until next week. The one thing I like about this website is if I click on a particular path, I get a nice 8.5 by ... Oh, okay, I'm not getting anything there. Let me see. Pull that up. There we go. That's better. We've got a very low path. This one is just skimming the northern horizon here over Denver. It's early in the evening. You see where it starts at 8.28 and goes to about 8.34. It's actually not a bad path, but it's very, very low in the northern horizon. You definitely have to have some clear skies and a flat horizon towards the north, neither of which I have in that direction. You may, like I said, put in your home coordinates. Log in and put in your home coordinates. You can click on a particular path and check that out. Again, that website is www.heavens-above.com. It has a lot more than just ISS passes. It's got the Chinese, North Korean satellites, the Hubble environmental star link passes for all objects from the launch. Those are always neat to see if you have some of those star link trains go over. You can check that out. It's got a lot more information. Again, heaven-above.com. That's it for that bulletin. This is KI-0A. I've got control for the Colorado astronomy net. This is repeater station kilo kilo seven November Quebec November all star node 6222 located in Shelton, Washington. I've got a couple of quick bulletins from science.nasa.gov. Weird ways to observe the moon. This is dated September 15. International observe the moon night is on October 4, 2025 this year. You can observe the moon whenever it's up day or night. The telescopes certainly reveal incredible details of our neighbors. Bringing out dark seas, bright craters and numerous odd pictures and cracks. These tools are not the only way to observe details about our moon. There are more ways to observe the moon than you might expect just using common household materials. Put on a pair of sunglasses, especially polarized sunglasses. You may think this is a joke, but the point of polarized sunglasses is to dramatically reduce glare. And so they allow your eyes to pick out some lunar detail. Surprisingly, wearing sunglasses even helps during daytime observations in the moon. One unlikely tool is the humble plastic bottle cap. John Goss from the Roanoke Valley Astronomical Society shared these directions on how to make your own bottle cap lunar viewer which was suggested to him by Fred Schaff many years ago as a way to also view the thin crescent of Venus when close to the sun. The full moon is very bright so much that details are overwhelming by overwhelmed, excuse me, the full moon is very bright so much that details are overwhelmed by the glare. Here is an easy way to see more. Start by drilling a 1.16 inch or 1.5 millimeter diameter hole in a plastic soft drink bottle cap. Make sure it is an unobstructed round hole. Now, look through the hole at the bright moon. The image brightness will be much dimmer than normal, about 90% dimmer, reducing or eliminating any lunar glare. The image should also be much sharper because the bottle cap blocks light from entering the outer portion of your pupil while imperfections of the eye's curving obstacle path likely lie. Many report seeing a startling amount of lunar detail.