Kleť Observatory (; 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 and has around 150 clear nights per year.

Astronomers

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

Discoveries + Minor planets discovered: 315 see

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

7390 Kundera 31 August 1983 7672 Hawking 24 October 1995 7799 Martinšolc 24 February 1996 8137 Kvíz 19 September 1979 8719 Vesmír 11 November 1995 8990 Compassion 19 February 1980 9087 Neff 29 September 1995 1 May 1997 9665 Inastronoviny 5 June 1996 1 July 1997 18 October 1996 12409 Bukovanská 28 September 1995 12790 Cernan 24 October 1995 12799 von Suttner 26 November 1995 12835 Stropek 7 February 1997 14056 Kainar 13 January 1996 20 September 1997 17 December 1998 18 December 1998 4 July 1999 1 March 1995 17611 Jožkakubík 24 October 1995 9 December 1996 19 February 1998 8 September 1999 10 December 1995 19 July 1999 6 March 1997 8 October 1999 21257 Jižní Čechy 26 February 1996 12 December 1996 24847 Polesný 26 November 1995 5 August 1998 17 August 1998 25383 Lindacker 18 October 1999 13 August 1997 18 January 1999 15 October 1996 22 September 1997 26 February 1998 18 December 1998 28614 Vejvoda 25 March 2000 29760 Milevsko 15 February 1999 20 August 1996 6 February 1997 12 August 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KLENOT project + Minor planets discovered: 30 see

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

42377 KLENOT 8 March 2002 68779 Schöninger 18 March 2002 89909 Linie 8 March 2002 90279 Devětsil 26 February 2003 111913 Davidgans 1 April 2002 126780 Ivovasiljev 10 March 2002 128622 Rudiš 4 September 2004 149160 Geojih 1 April 2002 149728 Klostermann 19 May 2004 157064 Sedona 26 September 2003 159743 Kluk 23 March 2003 159799 Kralice 15 September 2003 159814 Saguaro 27 September 2003 166570 Adolfträger 8 September 2002 170306 Augustzátka 18 September 2003 175017 Záboří 28 March 2004 183560 Křišťan 24 May 2003 191282 Feustel 22 March 2003 204370 Ferdinandvaněk 5 October 2004 209107 Šafránek 16 September 2003 213771 Johndee 27 February 2003 215841 Čimelice 6 February 2005 223360 Švankmajer 16 September 2003 230648 Zikmund 17 September 2003 232923 Adalovelace 15 January 2005 235621 Kratochvíle 5 September 2004 250374 Jírovec 17 October 2003 350969 Boiohaemum 27 February 2003 363623 Chelčický 15 August 2004 405207 Konstanz 24 May 2003

See also List of astronomical observatories

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