The Jemez Historic Site in Jemez Springs has announced a summer star party event, with star gazing and astronomy lessons.
The event will be held on Saturday, July 13 from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. and is being co-presented with The Albuquerque Astronomical Society (TAAS). Brian Crawford of TAAS will give a presentation on “Fabulous 50 Summer Stars and Constellations,” and make note of the visible planets, asterisms, constellations, other objects in the sky like nebula and galaxies.
There will be available viewing telescopes at Jemez's dark sky sites.
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 $10 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.