The Jemez Historic Site in Jemez Springs has announced a solar viewing event entitled Looking to the Skies: Ancient and Modern Astronomers.
The event will be held on Sunday, July 14 from 10 a.m. to noon and is being co-presented with The Albuquerque Astronomical Society (TAAS). Tom Grzybowski of TAAS will give a presentation on "The Sun’s Nature and How to Observe its Features,” and discuss how the sun is uniquely able to sustain earth's environment. Recent solar events including the eclipse and solar activity related to the eleven year sunspot cycle will also be discussed.
Weather permitting, there will be two safe sun observation telescopes available to attendees.
Lauren Camp, a New Mexico Poet Laureate who has written a poetry collection about her time as Astronomer in Residence at the Grand Canyon will also attend and give a presentation about her time working at Grand Canyon.
Admission is $7 per adult, with children 16 years old and younger admitted for free. Members of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, Friends of Coronado and Jemez, Native or Tribal affiliations, and disabled veterans are also admitted for free.
The Jemez Historical Site, located in the village of Jemez Springs, includes stone remnants of a 700 year old village and the San José de los Jémez church, which is dated to 1621 or 1622. The village of Gisewa, built in the San Diego Canyon, was founded by the ancestral people of the present day Jemez Pueblo people.