Free Astronomy Magazine March-April 2020

MARCH-APRIL 2020 for cultural weeks organized in many municipalities of Safor, in sem- inars held in libraries, through pho- tographic exhibitions, conferences, public observations, and through communications to the press, radio and local television about astronom- ical phenomena of general interest. Together with didactics and educa- tional work, to which a great ef- fort is dedicated, the AAS, through working groups created within it, has emerged as a participant in the field of amateur astronomical re- search through the discovery of sev- eral asteroids. F amily photo of those attending the XX Congreso Estatal de Astro- nomía, organized in Gandia with the assistance of more than 200 people. A part of the expedition of sev- eral astronomical associations, which went to China to observe the longest solar eclipse of the 21 st century. In the field of archeoastronomy, the AAS located the position of an old monastery now disappeared in the Gallinera Valley, where the Sun’s rays passing through a perforated rock on the day of San Francisco of Assisi (October 3 rd ) hit the saint’s altar, illuminating it while leaving the surrounding environment in the shade. The AAS also provided con- text for an ancient legend in Penáguila, a city near Alcoy (accord- ing to which, pregnancies were given favor by the Sun’s rays if those rays crossed another perforated rock and touched a woman during the winter solstice).