The Skalnaté Pleso Atlas of the Heavens is a set of 16 celestial charts covering the entire sky. It is named after the Skalnaté Pleso Observatory in Slovakia where it was produced. The first versions
One chart from the color Atlas
Antonín Bečvář
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Antonín Bečvář was a Czechoslovak astronomer.
Skalnate Pleso Atlas of the Heavens
…in 1948; later that year, Sky Publishing Corporation acquired the copyright and began publication in the United States. The charts were hand-drawn by Antonín Bečvář. At the time it was first published, the Atlas Coeli was unique in that it contained essentially all non-stellar objects (star clusters, galaxies etc…
Antonín Bečvář