Bc. Martin Mašek
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Professional staff member with secondary education
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New "Christmas" comet discovered by a Czech, named C/2024 Y1 (Mašek).
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Update 1. 1. 2025 A new comet was spotted on the night of 24–25 December 2024 by scientist Martin Mašek from the Institute of Physics over the western horizon in Argentina. He operated the telescope online from Liberec (city in the Czech Republic). This is the first Czech discovery of a comet where the observer was not physically present in the observatory, and the first Czech discovery from the southern hemisphere. The comet will not appear above our horizon until late February or early March.
Czech astronomer photographs Musk's electric car in orbit
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Masek took the picture of it with the aid of the FRAM robotic telescope, which is a part of the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina. The observatory is designed to detect ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
Successful observation of the asteroid 2012 DA14 with the Institute of Physics telescope
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This image was first of the asteroid photographs made within the European project GLORIA, the global network of robotic telescopes. The image has thus achieved wide publicity, it was shown e.g. at the web pages of NASA or published in the newspaper Guardian.
