Kleť Observatory
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Kleť Observatory (Template:Langx; obs. code: 046) is an astronomical observatory in the Czech Republic. It is situated in South Bohemia, south of the summit of Mount Kleť, near the town of České Budějovice. Constructed in 1957, the observatory is at an altitude of Template:Convert and has around 150 clear nights per year.
AstronomersEdit
Astronomer Antonín Mrkos became director of Kleť Observatory in 1965.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Two main astronomers who currently work at Kleť Observatory are Jana Tichá and her husband Miloš Tichý.<ref name="thousand_asteroids">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
InstrumentsEdit
The observatory has two primary telescopes:
- 1.06-m KLENOT telescope (since 2002)
- 0.57-m f/5.2 reflector (since 1993)
GalleryEdit
- Mount Klet.jpg
Summit of Mount Kleť, the observatory is visible on the left
- Jana Tichá, Miloš Tichý and KLENOT.jpg
Jana Tichá, Miloš Tichý and KLENOT in 2004
- Výlet na Klet - 28 srpna 2009 116.JPG
Telescope
DiscoveriesEdit
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As of 2015 over a thousand asteroids were discovered at Kleť Observatory, as well as comet 196P/Tichý.<ref name="thousand_asteroids" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Asteroid 5583 Braunerova was discovered by A. Mrkos at Kleť Observatory in 1989. The asteroid 7796 Járacimrman was (re)discovered at Kleť Observatory on 16 January 1996 by Zdeněk Moravec and was designated 1996 BG. It was observed until April 1996 and then in June and July 1997. It was discovered to be a lost asteroid which had previously been observed twice: at the Brera-Merate ObservatoryTemplate:Citation needed in northern Italy on 12 December 1973 and at Siding Spring Observatory (Australia), on 8 and 9 July 1990. Asteroid 4250 Perun, provisional designation "1984 UG", was discovered by Zdeňka Vávrová on 20 October 1984.
Discoveries credited to Kleť ObservatoryEdit
7390 Kundera | 31 August 1983 | Template:LoMP |
7672 Hawking | 24 October 1995 | Template:LoMP |
7799 Martinšolc | 24 February 1996 | Template:LoMP |
8137 Kvíz | 19 September 1979 | Template:LoMP |
8719 Vesmír | 11 November 1995 | Template:LoMP |
8990 Compassion | 19 February 1980 | Template:LoMP |
9087 Neff | 29 September 1995 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 1 May 1997 | Template:LoMP |
9665 Inastronoviny | 5 June 1996 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 1 July 1997 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 18 October 1996 | Template:LoMP |
12409 Bukovanská | 28 September 1995 | Template:LoMP |
12790 Cernan | 24 October 1995 | Template:LoMP |
12799 von Suttner | 26 November 1995 | Template:LoMP |
12835 Stropek | 7 February 1997 | Template:LoMP |
14056 Kainar | 13 January 1996 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 20 September 1997 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 17 December 1998 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 18 December 1998 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 4 July 1999 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 1 March 1995 | Template:LoMP |
17611 Jožkakubík | 24 October 1995 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 9 December 1996 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 19 February 1998 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 8 September 1999 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 4 December 2004 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 6 February 2005 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 8 October 1999 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 15 August 2004 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 6 January 2000 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 24 October 2003 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 12 March 2007 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 30 September 1996 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 16 October 2007 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 4 April 2002 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 23 August 2003 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 2 September 2004 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 6 March 2008 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 12 March 2007 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Mp | 18 October 1997 | Template:LoMP |
Template:Anchor KLENOT projectEdit
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KLENOT is an initialism of KLET Observatory Near Earth and Other unusual objects observations Team and Telescope.<ref name="KLENOT">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is limited to objects with a visual apparent magnitude of 22.0 and brighter.<ref name="KLENOT info">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
List of discovered minor planetsEdit
42377 KLENOT | 8 March 2002 | Template:LoMP |
68779 Schöninger | 18 March 2002 | Template:LoMP |
89909 Linie | 8 March 2002 | Template:LoMP |
90279 Devětsil | 26 February 2003 | Template:LoMP |
111913 Davidgans | 1 April 2002 | Template:LoMP |
126780 Ivovasiljev | 10 March 2002 | Template:LoMP |
128622 Rudiš | 4 September 2004 | Template:LoMP |
149160 Geojih | 1 April 2002 | Template:LoMP |
149728 Klostermann | 19 May 2004 | Template:LoMP |
157064 Sedona | 26 September 2003 | Template:LoMP |
159743 Kluk | 23 March 2003 | Template:LoMP |
159799 Kralice | 15 September 2003 | Template:LoMP |
159814 Saguaro | 27 September 2003 | Template:LoMP |
166570 Adolfträger | 8 September 2002 | Template:LoMP |
170306 Augustzátka | 18 September 2003 | Template:LoMP |
175017 Záboří | 28 March 2004 | Template:LoMP |
183560 Křišťan | 24 May 2003 | Template:LoMP |
191282 Feustel | 22 March 2003 | Template:LoMP |
204370 Ferdinandvaněk | 5 October 2004 | Template:LoMP |
209107 Šafránek | 16 September 2003 | Template:LoMP |
213771 Johndee | 27 February 2003 | Template:LoMP |
215841 Čimelice | 6 February 2005 | Template:LoMP |
223360 Švankmajer | 16 September 2003 | Template:LoMP |
230648 Zikmund | 17 September 2003 | Template:LoMP |
232923 Adalovelace | 15 January 2005 | Template:LoMP |
235621 Kratochvíle | 5 September 2004 | Template:LoMP |
250374 Jírovec | 17 October 2003 | Template:LoMP |
350969 Boiohaemum | 27 February 2003 | Template:LoMP |
363623 Chelčický | 15 August 2004 | Template:LoMP |
405207 Konstanz | 24 May 2003 | Template:LoMP |
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
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