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Well, you know, it takes a lot of energy to blast through clouds. It really does. So, yeah, you know, I think some kind of a reactor would probably be a good choice for that. I have solar panels here. Those are pretty high-tech, but they just don't begin to have the amount of power that one needs to bore a hole through the clouds. I think the clouds aren't the problem right now. It's the smoke. And we've been having lots of clear nights lately. I've just kind of gotten used to it being clear. But, yeah, every day I look at the smoke map and, yeah, not so much. And, of course, something that I've learned, especially once we finally got auto-guiding to work, is that, you know, you've got this yellow signal-to-noise line on the graph. It's up at the top. And down at the bottom you have this red, what do they call that, the RMS line that shows the aggregate air of your guiding. And as the yellow line goes down, as the smoke gets a little thicker up there in the atmosphere, the red line goes up. So, yeah, finally just gave up trying to do anything when it's smoky, which is too bad because there's lots of stuff I would like to be eating right now. And I'm not because of the smoke. Okay, I just got my focus motor. Those are actually during the morning that it showed up on the front porch. And the HC it has, hold on, I've got to go through this quiet part of the house. Oh, hey, we made it through the house out to the front door and got the focus motor and then back out the shed so I can finish my net. So, anyway, we'll be putting that thing on here pretty soon. So, yeah, just waiting for the smoke to clear. Anyway, I better get off here before time out.