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On Mondays and Wednesdays, Jack, K-0-V-H, likes to host flights on his flight sim channel on YouTube at 6.30 p.m. Mountain Time. Always looking for other more people to join him on his flights, his virtual flights on there. Captain Jack flights him, C-A-P-N-J-A-C-K-F-L-T-S-I-M. Join that or follow him along on YouTube and he does post when he will be up via one of his lists as well. He's been working pretty hard, will be working probably pretty hard in the next couple of weeks. So, but his presentation is on YouTube on his flight sims. You can check out some of his earlier flights as well. That's again, Captain Jack flights him on YouTube. And speaking of which, you can do that, you can also check out some of my past Colorado astronomy nets as well. So, this is K-0-A, our net control for Colorado astronomy net. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November Quebec November, All Star Node 6222, located in Shelton, Washington. All right, W2JLS, thanks for checking in tonight and on YouTube. Cool. There you go. I'm going to go ahead, I'll look for check-ins a little bit later on. For those of you who may be waiting to check in, you can check in via Net Logger if you have Net Logger and look for the Colorado astronomy net. Or if you have YouTube, you can check in via YouTube as well. And I'll see you pop up an edge. Right now, I'm going to go ahead and get into the local astronomical news for this last week of September. We had the phases of the moon. We had the new moon on the 21st. We got a first quarter moon coming up on the 29th. For those of you who have clear skies, it's quite overcast here and raining here in Colorado. For those of you who may have clear skies, you may want to take a look towards the west to see a nice thin crescent moon before it sets over the western horizon. This is two days after new moon, so it's going to be setting pretty quickly if it hasn't already set. Always need to look at the thin crescent moon as it sets there. The moon was at its close to the Earth this month. Back on the 10th, it was 226,662 miles from Earth. The moon will be at Apogee, it's farthest point away from the Earth this month. On the 26th, it will be 251,996 miles from Earth. Monetary highlights for September. September sky is rich with opportunities. Titan's shadow continues to transgendered. The ringed planet reaches the moon with both worlds in the same region of the sky. Uranus is descending towards solar conjunction. Uranus is a fine binocular target. While Jupiter dominates the early moon, Venus starts the month near M44. Then inches closer to a conjunction with Regulus and the crescent moon. This excerpt is from Astronomy magazine, September 2025, page 28.