Kleà ¥ Observatory (; obs. code: 046) is an astronomical observatory in the Czech Republic. It is situated in South Bohemia, south of the summit of Mount Kleà ¥, near the town of ÃÂeské BudÃÂjovice. Constructed in 1957, the observatory is at an altitude of and has around 150 clear nights per year.
Astronomer AntonÃÂn Mrkos became director of Kleà ¥ Observatory in 1965.
Two main astronomers who currently work at Kleà ¥ Observatory are Jana Tichá and her husband Miloà ¡ Tichý.
The observatory has two primary telescopes:
As of 2015 over a thousand asteroids were discovered at Kleà ¥ Observatory, as well as comet 196P/Tichý.
Asteroid 5583 Braunerova was discovered by A. Mrkos at Kleà ¥ Observatory in 1989. The asteroid 7796 Járacimrman was (re)discovered at Kleà ¥ Observatory on 16 January 1996 by ZdenÃÂk 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 Zdeà Âka Vávrová on 20 October 1984.
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.