https://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/Juldyz klub · School No. 1 · notes of a physics teacher who looks up Kündölük 3.4.2enhttps://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2026/10/cold-roof.html Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:30:00 +0600Noteshttps://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2026/10/cold-roof.html The last of the Orionids tonight, but a lot of cloud and a cold wind. We stood on the roof for an hour and counted three. Altynai brought hot tea, and the children brought each other their own news: who has a new phone, who has a new brother, who is leaving for Talas to study. I am sixty-five. The…https://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2026/08/the-best-perseids-in-years.html Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0600Skyhttps://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2026/08/the-best-perseids-in-years.html Moon new. No cloud. Seventy-one in an hour, counted by my grandson with a clicker from the football match. Four fireballs. At the end the whole field fell silent and a girl of nine said, "Is that all?" "For this year," I said. "There's always the next one." In Spain they had an eclipse of the Sun…https://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2025/09/the-last-blood-moon.html Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:30:00 +0600Skyhttps://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2025/09/the-last-blood-moon.html Tonight, a total lunar eclipse again: the Moon turned slowly copper over the eastern ridge and stayed so for about eighty minutes. Fifteen children from the club, seven parents and Altynai, the young teacher who took over physics. She runs the club now, and I come with a thermos. I am tired and I…https://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2024/05/a-red-sky-in-the-north.html Sat, 11 May 2024 23:10:00 +0600Skyhttps://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2024/05/a-red-sky-in-the-north.html Last night I was washing dishes and my wife called me from the porch: "Almazbek, the sky is on fire." Low in the north, a pink and red glow, big as a mountain, with pale rays going up. It lasted half an hour. I thought: it must be a fire in a village, but there was none. Then the internet said:…https://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2023/11/quiet-autumn.html Sun, 12 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0600Noteshttps://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2023/11/quiet-autumn.html A quiet autumn. In October people in the town were careful, as everywhere. I will not write about it here. The club met every Friday as usual. The children looked up and the sky was clear. The telescope has a new tripod, from the parents' committee.https://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2023/08/perseids-at-the-dacha.html Sun, 13 Aug 2023 22:40:00 +0600Skyhttps://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2023/08/perseids-at-the-dacha.html First time I watch the Perseids from a garden chair instead of the school roof. My wife brought a blanket. The sky was very good: no Moon until near dawn, forty an hour. My grandson is eight and he counted all of them, aloud, in two languages. Retirement. It is not bad.https://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2021/05/last-bell.html Sun, 30 May 2021 17:00:00 +0600Schoolhttps://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2021/05/last-bell.html Today is the last bell for the 12th class, and for me. I am sixty, I have taught here for thirty-five years, and from September someone younger will teach physics. She is a good girl, a TSU graduate, and she has already asked about the roof. I will keep the club and the telescope. The headmaster…https://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2020/12/conjunction.html Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:20:00 +0600Skyhttps://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2020/12/conjunction.html Yesterday Jupiter and Saturn were so close that they looked like one star, low in the south-west after sunset. The telescope showed both in the same field of view: the big banded Jupiter and its four moons, and the small ringed Saturn beside it. The last time they were this close was 1623, the…https://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2020/07/neowise.html Mon, 20 Jul 2020 23:50:00 +0600Skyhttps://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2020/07/neowise.html The comet of the year. Low in the north-west after sunset, with a long tail like a brush stroke. I took my wife, my grandson and the dog up to the school roof (the key still works). The comet hung under the Plough, fuzzy and calm, with a tail that was easy to see in binoculars. No quarantine would…https://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2020/04/a-quiet-spring.html Sun, 05 Apr 2020 20:10:00 +0600Noteshttps://blog.attelkom.net/juldyzchy/2020/04/a-quiet-spring.html The school is closed. We have lessons on Tulpar. I teach the 10th class from my kitchen, with my wife passing behind the camera with the laundry. The club is not allowed to meet, so every Friday I send an exercise: "go outside for fifteen minutes, find the Moon, draw it." Thirty-four drawings came…