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Apr162006

The eclipse we half saw

On 29 March the Moon covered the Sun. In Turkey and Libya the day turned to night. We are far to the east of the line, so we had only a bite: a little more than half of the Sun covered, at about noon.

The club made pinhole viewers from cereal boxes and welded-glass filters from the workshop. Forty children stood in the yard with their backs to the Sun and looked at a small white square on the ground. The square had a bite in it, getting bigger, then smaller. Not one of them said "boring". Then a cloud came. We cheered anyway.

The sun with a bite. The second photo is just of a cloud, so I have not put it here.
The sun with a bite. The second photo is just of a cloud, so I have not put it here.
Apr22006

Why a dark page

The pupils told me that Kündölük has colour schemes, and that one of them is dark. So I chose "Tün", the night. It is correct for a person who writes about the sky.

Here I will put what we see from the school roof, when we see it, and what we do not see because of clouds, which is usually more.