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OK. Also, I'll mention October is meteor watching season. We're right now entering the Draconid meteor shower. It's active peaking tomorrow night, October 8. Normally, it produces tens of meteors an hour. It's not like one of these mind-blowing meteor showers. But tens an hour. Occasionally, it could produce with sudden bursts, though, depending on the dust stream that it's passing through. So maybe the problem that you're going to contend with tomorrow is the full moon. It's going to make things maybe more difficult to see, unless they are the brighter occurrences. So if you're interested, you might try to get out there and look to the Northeast just after dusk, away from the moon's glare, and see how it goes. You might get lucky. I had some observers last month reporting to me. A friend had mentioned seeing one even near the full moon in last month. So it's not like the moon completely shuts off the ability to see that stuff. But it can kind of diminish the count. And you won't see the fainter ones. Later this month, you'll also have a chance to look at the Orionids meteor shower, October 20 to 21. And that shower was born from debris left behind by Halley's Comet. So for those of you who are fans of Halley's, you'll have a chance to maybe take a ride through its dust. How about that? And you will benefit. And that's that one from darker skies. So it would probably be a better chance to get a good look at a fair zenith hourly rate on that evening. Those two nights, October 20 and 21. OK. Pause the mic here and come back.