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When the director of the Tonanzintla project, Luis Enrique Erro, was first secretary of the Mexican embassy in Washington a decade ago, he had astronomy as his hobby. He made frequent trips to Cambridge to see the Observatory and under the tutelage of is director. Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of Practical Astronomy, he became an active amateur observer...
Erro conceived the idea of a new national observatory for Mexico and interested President Mannel Avila Camacho in the idea in December, 1940. Gouralo Bautista, governor of the state of Puebla, who is to be a member of the Mexican group coming here in April, gave the site at Tonanzintla and premised that the state of Puebla would care for construction of the buildings, improvement of nearby roads and landscaping of the grounds...
...hill where Aztec priests once studied the stars, President Manuel Avila Camacho of Mexico dedicated a great modern observatory. Tonanzintla, near Puebla, 70 miles southeast of Mexico City, was the envy of visiting U.S. astronomers because of its latitude. Harvard's Harlow Shapley explained, "All the Milky Way can be seen-not merely the 60% or less which is satisfactorily explored from most northern observatories...
This includes work done by Harvard on two 24-inch Schmidt telescopes which will go into operation in the spring, one at the now Mexican National Observatory at Tonanzintla, Pueblo...
Astronomers of the Harvard Observatory are cooperating closely with Mexican astronomers in planning the program and equipment of Mexico's new National Observatory, now nearing completion at Tonanzintla, 80 miles east of Mexico City, stated Professor Bart J. Bok of the Harvard Observatory yesterday, in an article in "Sky and Telescope." Professor Bok has returned after two months as major American consultant at the new Mexican observatory...
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