Staff members
Jana Tichá - Director of the Kleť Observatory
Principal investigator of the Klet' Observatory minor planets and comets programme including the KLENOT Project.
Observations and data processing
Activities:
- astrometry of minor planets and comets, especially NEOs
- coordination of observations
- confirmation of NEOs and comet discoveries
- recoveries of NEOs
- discovery and follow-up astrometry of minor planets
- astrometry of distant objects - Centaurs and TNOs
- history of astronomy in relationship to the minor planet names
- observations and data processing
Membership:
- member of Commisions 20 and 6 of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) (since 2000)
- consultant of Commisions 20 and 6 of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) (1997-2000)
- member of the Organizing Committee of Commision 6 of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) (since 2003)
- member of the Organizing Committee of Commision 20 of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) (since 2006)
- member of the Organizing committee of the Working Group for Near Earth Objects (OC WGNEO) of the IAU(2000-2006)
- chair of the Committee for Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN) of the IAU (since 2003)
- member of the Committee for Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN) of the IAU (since 2000)
- member of the Organizing Committee of a Working Group on the "Definition of a Planet" (2004-2006)
- member of the NEO Steering commitee GSF OECD (since 2002)
- member of The Spaceguard Foundation
- visiting member of The Spaceguard UK
- member of CZECH NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR ASTRONOMY (2003-2010)
- SOC member of Asteroids, Comets, Meteors - ACM 2005 (Brasil, 2005)
- NOC member of XXVI. GA IAU (Prague, 2006)
- LOC member of XXVI. GA IAU (Prague, 2006)
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https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3761-3399
Miloš Tichý - Head of the Kleť Observatory, Principal Observer and Measurer
Principal Observer and Measurer< br/> Hardware and technology specialist
KLENOT Project Manager
Observations and data processing
Activities:
- astrometry of minor planets and comets, especially NEOs
- confirmation of NEOs and comet discoveries
- recoveries of NEOs
- discovery and follow-up astrometry of minor planets
- astrometry of distant objects - Centaurs and TNOs
- identification of minor planets
- hardware and technology development
- observations and data processing
- discoverer of short-periodic comet 196P/Tichý = P/2000 U6 = P/2008 C2
Membership:
- consultant of Commision 20 of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) (since 1997)
- consultant of the Working Group of Near Earth Objects (WGNEO) (200-2006)
- consultant of Commision 6 of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) (since 2003)
- member of The Spaceguard Foundation
- visiting member of The Spaceguard UK
- SOC member of the Third International Workshop on Cometary Astronomy (Paris, 2004)
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8649-0359
Michaela Honková - KLENOT Project Software Specialist, observations and data processing
Activities:
- astrometry of minor planets and comets, especially NEOs
- software development
- observations and data processing
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Martin Janda - observations and data processing
Activities:
- astrometry of minor planets and comets, especially NEOs
- observations and data processing
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