Kleť Observatory

Astronomer Antonín Mrkos became director of Kleť Observatory in 1965. Two main astronomers who currently work at Kleť Observatory are Jana Tichá and her husband Miloš Tichý. == Instruments ==

The observatory has two primary telescopes: • 1.06-m KLENOT telescope (since 2002) • 0.57-m f/5.2 reflector (since 1993) == Gallery ==

File:Mount Klet.jpg|Summit of Mount Kleť, the observatory is visible on the left File:Jana Tichá, Miloš Tichý and KLENOT.jpg|Jana Tichá, Miloš Tichý and KLENOT in 2004 File:Výlet na Klet - 28 srpna 2009 116.JPG|Telescope == Discoveries ==

As of 2015 over a thousand asteroids were discovered at Kleť Observatory, as well as comet 196P/Tichý. 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 Observatory 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 Observatory == KLENOT project==

KLENOT is an initialism of KLET Observatory Near Earth and Other unusual objects observations Team and Telescope. It is limited to objects with a visual apparent magnitude of 22.0 and brighter. List of discovered minor planets == See also ==