I co-led a JWST Cycle 2 Director’s Discretionary program with Kyle Franson to characterize the atmosphere and thermal budget of AF Lep b with JWST. With a separation from its bright host star of only 0.3 arcseconds (about 2λ/D, and 7% coronagraphic throughput) at the time of observation, the planet was particularly challenging to recover in the glare from its bright host star. Nevertheless, in observations I planned based on a feasibility study I led, we successfully recovered the planet at a high significance at its expected location. I am second author on an excellent paper by Kyle describing the exciting evidence for disequilibrium chemistry and enhanced metallicity in the planet’s atmosphere, which we were able to learn about by detecting the planet in these mid-infrared wavelengths.