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Annular Eclipse - October 14 - View at Coronado or Jemez Historic Sites
(full eclipse is at approximately 10:45 a.m)
Coronado Events:  8 a.m. - 1 p.m.  Jemez Events: 8 a.m. - 9 p.m
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Timeline from the site: Great American Eclipse.com/New Mexico

Coronado Historic Site, 8 a.m. - 1 p.m.

8am- Site Opens with Family/children’s activities

  • Food truck with coffee, cocoa, breakfast burritos

  • Native arts & crafts fair

  • Kids' art activities -- glow in the dark painting of constellations and eclipse

  • Loop presentation video about eclipse in video room

9:12 - 11 a.m.- Sun/Eclipse viewing

  • Eclipse progresses (viewing glasses provided for 500 visitors)

  • 10 am: Short Site Tour- astronomy theme

  • 1034-10:39 am- Full annularity of eclipse, TAAS (The Albuquerque Astronomical Society): will have 2-3 telescopes with solar viewing filters

11am—12pm- Comedy performance

12pm: Full Site Tour – astronomy theme
 

MoQuestions: 505-867-5351

Tickets for Coronado Historic Site are available at https://my.nmculture.org/20943/26361; $10/adult, $5/child

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Celebrate the Annular Eclipse with a T-shirt, magnets, maps and more.  The Sun Fathers' Gift Shop at Coronado has them!  See them all!

Jemez Historic Site, 8 a.m. - 9 p.m.

8am- Open site, Sun/Eclipse viewing | Family/children’s activities take place throughout the day

  • Native arts & crafts fair

  • Food vendors

  • Kids' art activities -- glow in the dark painting of constellations and eclipse

  • Loop presentation video about eclipse in museum

  • NMHS telescope available with sun viewing filter

9:12 - 12:10 - Eclipse progresses (viewing glasses provided for 500 visitors)

  • 10 am: Site Tour

  • 10:34-10:39 am- Full annularity of eclipse

After the Eclipse Activities

  • 11am—12pm - Comedy performance

  • 12pm—1pm- - Story Telling

  • 1pm—2pm- - Comedy performance

  • 2pm—3pm - - Story telling

  • 3:30pm—4:30pm- Native Roots performance

  • 5 pm - Site Tour

6pm—9pm- Star Party-

  • Astronomers set up telescopes in the front of church

  • Presenter/Workshop/Performer inside museum.

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Questions? 575-829-3530 or Facebook page

Tickets for Jemez Historic Site: https://my.nmculture.org/20953/26362      Adults/$10, Child/$5

About the Annular

 

Join the American Astronomical Society, NASA, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, and others to view this special celestial event!  The site will be open in time for you to find a spot for your chairs and enjoy the spectical.

 

An annular eclipse is when the moon fully passes in front of the sun, but a fiery ring extends around its borders.  This hasn’t been visible in central New Mexico since 2012. Learn more about the science of eclipses and how Pueblo people and other communities thought about these events in the past, while learning how to safely view an annular eclipse.

 

Note: there is NO time during an annular eclipse when it is safe to look directly at the sun. Event participants will have access to filters for safe viewing and be able to create their own pinhole cameras to watch the whole event. 

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You can also check out: https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/new-mexico-2023-eclipse .  This site also has a link to "How to Safely Watch an Eclipse".

Rob Martinez, Deputy New Mexico State Historian presents A History of Witchcraft and Sorcery in New Mexico, October 29, 2023,  at the Martha Liebert Library in Bernalillo (new location)

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New Mexico’s enduring beliefs in witchcraft and the ways of sorcerers during the Spanish Colonial and Mexican periods is the theme of this lecture. This presentation about brujeria and hechiceria, witchcraft and sorcery, examines the background and context of this history. The talk also touches on why, even in current times, such beliefs still persist in New Mexico.

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Rob Martinez has had a life-long fascination with witchcraft and sorcery in New Mexico. While searching for a topic for his Master’s thesis in the mid-1990s, Rob Martinez, a graduate of the University of New Mexico, became aware of an Inquisition case from the 1760s in Abiquiu about an outbreak of sorcery in that community. The result of his research, that included reading a copy of the Inquisition folios in Mexico City, resulted in his thesis titled Fray Juan Jose Toledo and the Devil in Spanish New Mexico.

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