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KI7PKL from GW8S. I'm really happy that you are blessed with some clear skies over there, Roy. No such luck over here. It's cloudy, a miserable day. No rain, but all those dark clouds when you wake up in the morning and you look out the window and you think, do I really want to get up? I'll just go back to bed. No, I've got to get up, unfortunately. But we're having that kind of weather. But I actually do love the clear skies in the winter time. Very, very crystal clear and rather than, you know, the kind of skies you get overnight there in the summertime when you get the haze and all the rest of it. So, yep, the clear, crystal clear skies in the winter over here are good. But when it happens, I wish it happened actually a lot more than it actually does in reality. But, yeah, I had that problem as well in the field of the telescope. But, yeah, I wonder what you actually used for that particular photography part there, Roy. And, yes, the Andromeda Galaxy. We can get some good views of it here, as I said. But, you know, in the wintertime, as it's nice and clear. So, I'll have to go and revisit that one myself sometime. But, as I said, we get such a limited amount of clear skies here. We've got to prioritize what we're going to do. KI7PKL, GWAS, there now. This is repeating. This is repeating. Oh, yeah, the Andromeda Galaxy is just beautiful. So, anyway, I'm going to revisit that probably, I don't know, not tonight probably, but next available opportunity anyhow. Because, yes, I would like to produce a nice, big, beautiful, you know, high-res two-panel mosaic of Andromeda. That would be pretty nice. But, also, this week, I finally installed my focus motor. And we've been just having clouds and smoke and just, you know, doing everything but astronomy for about two months. And I hadn't gotten around to installing that thing yet. So, finally, a couple of days ago, I took time to install it. And, oh, that thing works great. It's the GWO EAF focus motor. And, oh, it's quiet, it's smooth, it just works really, really nice. And I'm very happy with it. And that actually completes my telescope. Now I have a complete smart telescope. And the telescope's an SB Boney 18-millimeter F6 refractor. And, you know, kind of a budget scope. I paid 610 US dollars for it. And it works very, very well. And then I have a field platinum focal reducer that's actually made for a different SB Boney telescope. But people on YouTube were saying it works well with this one. So, the regular one for this one is only, you know, just a field platinum. So this is a 0.8, oops.