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All right, Santos, again, welcome to the Colorado astronomy net and welcome to the hand bands as well. So, I do appreciate that. Let's see, I will continue on. I'm going to get started with the local astronomical news for tonight. Running a little long, but I think I got some short bulletins for tonight. I'm going to start off, as usual, with the phases of the Moon. We had a full moon back on the 5th that happened to have been a supermoon. In fact, the biggest and brightest full moon of the year occurred on the 5th, last quarter moon on the 12th. We've got a new moon coming up on the 20th. So, if you get up tomorrow morning and look towards the east and see a very, very thin sliver of a moon sitting on the horizon, which is actually an interesting sight to clear to the east, You have to be very, very, just before sunrise so you may be able to see that. We've got a first quarter moon coming up on the 28th. The moon was at perigee, its closest approach to the Earth this month, back on the 5th. It was 221,726 miles from Earth. The fact that it was its closest to the Earth this month and full moon is what made that particular full moon a supermoon. The moon will be at Apogee tomorrow, it's part of this point away from the Earth, tomorrow it will be 252,706 planetary highlights for November. Mercury switches from the evening to morning sky while the giant planets dominate them. The moons of Jupiter and Saturn offer many events. Venus stars on early November mornings but crops lower day by day. Exit is from Astronomy magazine November 2025. On with the planet, Mercury. Mercury will be at inferior conjunction on the 20th, which means it will be between us and the Sun on that particular day. So right now, Mercury is actually setting just a minute or two right behind the Sun. So it's lost in the early In the evening, twilight glows. We won't see Mercury for at least a week, ten days from now. We'll be returning to the morning sky right about 5.24 a.m. by months end.