Elsa Recillas Pishmish (also published as Elsa Recillas-Cruz) is a Mexican astronomer whose research involves photometry of galaxies and their brightest stars, and of emission nebulae.
She is a professor and researcher in the Mexican National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics.
[1] Recillas studied physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), graduating in 1968, and went on to earn a master's degree in astronomy from the University of Sussex in England in 1971.
[1] With her daughter Irene Cruz-González, Recillas is a coauthor of a book on Galileo, El hombre de la torre inclinada: Galileo Galilei (1st ed., Gatopardo, 1985).
Her mother Paris Pişmiş was a noted Armenian-Mexican astronomer, and her father Félix Recillas Juárez was a mathematician.