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All right, Doug, we've got you on the list, K08DP. Thanks for checking in tonight. Still, if you've gotten that longer and you're out there, just pop on. I'll get you logged in. And anyone over on YouTube listening in tonight, if you don't have a call sign, that's fine. Name and city, state, that'd be great. I'll get you on the list as well. Your check-in does count, so I do appreciate that. I'll go ahead and get into the local astronomical news for this end of November. Start off, as usual, with the phases of the moon. We're wrapping up the phases of the moon for this week. We had a new moon back on the 20th. We had a first quarter moon coming up on the 28th. So if you've got clear skies, get out there and look at that crescent moon up in the early evening sky. Always interesting to look at the crescent moon, especially with binoculars or a telescope. And look along that line. But if you look along the terminator, you will see mountain peaks that are lit up by the sun that are in the shadows. And you'll see craters that are hidden in the darkness over on the light side. You can definitely get almost a 3D feel for the moon as you're looking along that terminator and see how rough. That is not a smooth line going across the moon's surface there. It is definitely broken up and quite interesting, I should say. The moon was at perigee back on the 5th. That happened to be the night of the full moon, and that was a supermoon back then. It was the largest supermoon and brightest supermoon for 25. That occurred back on November 5. It was 221,726 miles from Earth. When the moon is at perigee and the moon is full, that's what makes it a full moon when it is closest to the Earth at that point. The moon was at apogee, it's farthest point away from the Earth this month, back on the 19th. It was 252,706 miles from Earth.