Guillermo Haro
Guillermo Haro ( born March 13, 1913 in Mexico City; † 26 April 1988) was a Mexican astronomer.
He grew up in the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution and studied philosophy at the National University of Mexico Outdoors ( UNAM). Gradually, however, his interest in astronomy was aroused and 1943 he was an assistant at the newly founded Observatorio de Astrofísico Tonantzintla appointed. To complete his knowledge he went to the USA and worked in the years 1943 and 1944 at the observatory at Harvard. There were also flying visits to the Case Observatory, the University of Chicago and the McDonald Observatory in Texas.
In 1945 he returned to the Observatorio de Astrofísico Tonantzintla, where he supervised the Schmidt telescope and to the study of red and blue star dedicated. In 1947 he moved to the Observatorio de Tacubaya UNAM, whose director he was. In 1951 he founded the Boletin de Los Observatorios de Tonantzintla y Tacubaya. Until 1983 he worked for this journal. He also founded the observatory in 1968 in Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California, which now bears his name.
During his tenure, he discovered independently by George Howard Herbig, the so-called Herbig -Haro objects. These are gas clouds that belong to young stars. In addition, he set up a catalog of 8746 blue stars and blue galaxies of 44. He also discovered several T Tauri star, a supernova, 10 novae and the comet C/1954 Y1 ( Haro - Chavira ).