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Skalnaté Pleso

a shorthand for the Atlas Coeli Skalnate Pleso 1950.0, a popular sky atlas for amateur astronomers that was compiled at the observatory.



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Antonín Bečvář

Bečvář is particularly important for his star charts: he led the compilation of the Atlas Coeli Skalnate Pleso (1951), published by Sky Publishing Corporation as the Skalnate Pleso Atlas of the Heavens, which was the state-of-the-art atlas of its kind until Wil Tirion's "Sky Atlas 2000.0" in 1981.