Guanajuato, Gto., January 12, 2016. With the purpose to reinforce the calling of interested youth in professionally dedicating to Astrophysics, from January 10 to 29 in Puebla, the school of Observational Astronomy for Latin American students (ESAOBELA for its acronym in Spanish) is developed, in it, twenty-four researchers from prestigious institutions participate, among them, Dr. Héctor Bravo-Alfaro and César Augusto Caretta from the University of Guanajuato (UG).

In this ninth edition o ESAOBELA, twelve students of physics, mathematics and engineering were accepted, they are from Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru and Mexico: They gathered in Tonantzintla, Puebla to assist theoretical classes and perform observational practices lengthwise nineteen days.

At the school there are astronomy courses taught on position and time, the Sun, spectral classification, photometry, stellar evolution, optical instrumentation and electronics, interstellar material, galaxy, extragalactic systems, radio astronomy and non-visible astronomy.

Classes are in charge of researchers from the "Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)", the "Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), University of Guanajuato (UG), the "Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) and the "Universidad de Guadalajara".

From the University of Guanajuato, professors like Dr. Héctor bravo participate. They have focused their research in the formation and evolution of galaxies as well as César A. Caretta, expert in extragalactic.

ESAOBELA was born nine years ago with the intention to take good use of the student's interest in areas such as Physics and Mathematics in Astrophysics. They estimate that thanks to ESAOBELA more than one hundred students have decided to dedicate professionally to astronomy.

Organized by UNAM and INAOE, the 2016 edition of ESOBELA is dedicated to Dr. Eugenio Mendoza Villareal, expert in the stellar structure and evolution, and is considered as a fundamental figure of Astrophysics in Mexico.

To know more details from ESAOBELA, please visit this site
www.astroscu.unam.mx/cursos/esaobela/index.html