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This is repeater station kilo kilo seven all right James that helps a lot almost Helped Some reason that zoo came over rather weird The first several times, but the the zed and the zebra I got so there. I appreciate it ve3 oz k Check it in tonight. We got it, but yeah, I think the other guys can confirm. Yep that it did sound kind of weird, at least on my end, on the digital side tonight. I do appreciate you checking in. All right. This is KI0AR and also the Colorado Astronomy Net running a little bit behind. So I'm going to jump right into the local astronomical news for tonight, or this week, I should say. to start off, as usual, with the phases of the moon. We had a full moon back on the 4th. It was a supermoon. We had a last quarter moon on the 11th. Let's see, we got a new moon coming up on the 19th. So look, in the early morning hours, the next couple of days, for a nice sliver of a thin, wet crescent moon. We got a first quarter moon coming up on the 27th. The moon was at perigee back on the 4th. It was 221,806 miles from Earth. That was its closest approach. And that is what made the flight back on the 4th day supermoon when the full moon occurs on or near when the moon is at perigee. The moon will be at its farthest point away from the Earth this month on the 17th. tomorrow, it will be 52,477 miles from Earth. Planetary highlights for December. The long nights of December are an astronomical delight. The early evening sky hosts Saturn as the main feature, along with Uranus and Neptune. Jupiter rises later and is visible all night. It's four main satellites undergoing many notable events. The morning sky shows the best Northern Hemisphere appearance of Mercury for the year. This is from Astronomy Magazine, December 2025, page 28.