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Alright, planetary highlights for October, longer nights bring two trinkets of Titan across Saturn. Oh wow, Io and Europa tango together across Jupiter three times. We missed those transits. We got Mercury and Mars to make a brief evening appearance and Venus dominates the morning sky. Plus, the flying Orion immediately, which occurred during the dark of the moon, so that was about a week and a half ago. It's from Astronomy magazine, October 2025, pace 28. We still have some stuff up there as well. Such as Mercury. Mercury will be at its greatest eastern elongation, about 24 degrees east of the Sun tomorrow evening. So that's going to be about as high as it's going to get in the western sky right after sunset. So check that out. However, we do have Mercury setting about 655 pm by month's end. So you need to get out there 30 inch and see if you might be able to spot Mercury. It will be about as high as it's going to get, which isn't very high above the western horizon. Mercury moves from a constellation of Virgo into Scorpius. It's actually about 0.1 on the 31st, so it's actually shining fairly brightly to be spotted the next several days. So you might have to pinpoint binoculars initially and then you can point a telescope and see. I have a fat crescent, Mercury, in the western sky just above that horizon. So you'll definitely need to clear western horizons about that.