The July 14 presentation at Jemez Historic Site will be followed by safe sun observation through two types of solar telescopes. Courtesy/JHS

Jemez Historic Site News:

The community is invited to join Jemez Historic Site for Looking to the Skies: Solar Viewing, co-presented with The Albuquerque Astronomical Society (TAAS) and New Mexico Arts 10 a.m. to noon Sunday, July 14.

TAAS member Tom Grzybowski will give a 45-minute presentation about “The Sun’s Nature and How to Observe its Features,” exploring the Sun’s key features that allow it to generate the earth’s life-giving environment.

The presentation will be followed by safe sun observation through two types of solar telescopes.

Joining the program will be special guest New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp, whose eighth poetry collection, In Old Sky [Poems Inspired by the Grand Canyon], was written about her time as Astronomer in Residence at the Grand Canyon.

Admission is $7/adults and free to children 16 and younger.

This program connects ancient practices of astronomy to modern-day study and introduces people to solar astronomy.