Antonín Rükl

Antonín Rükl (born September 22, 1932 in Čáslav , Czechoslovakia ; † July 11/12, 2016 ) was a Czech astronomer , cartographer and non-fiction author .

Life

As a student he began to be interested in astronomy. In 1956 he graduated from the Technical University in Prague and then worked in the astronomical department at the Prague Geodesy Institute .

From 1960 he worked in the Prague Planetarium , becoming deputy director and then head of the facility. He also became chairman of the planetary section of the Czechoslovak Astronomical Association. From 1996 until his retirement in 1999 he was Vice President of the International Planetarium Directors Conference .

Rükl was the author of several astronomical books. He acquired great skills in the field of cartography and especially selenography . His best known work is the moon atlas .

Rükl was married and had two children.

Works

• Skeleton Map of the Moon, 1: 6000000 . Central Institute of Geodesy and Cartography, Prague 1965.
• Maps of Lunar Hemispheres, 1: 10000000 . D. Reidel, Dordrecht 1972.
• Moon, Mars and Venus . Hamlin, London 1976, ISBN 0-600-36219-1 .
• Worlds, stars and planets . Mosaik, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-570-02118-1 .
• The Hamlyn Encyclopedia of Stars and Planets . The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, Prague 1988. ISBN 0-600-55151-2 .
• Hamlyn Atlas of the Moon . Hamlyn, 1991, ISBN 0-600-57190-4 .
• A Guide to the Stars, Constellations and Planets . Caxton Editions, 2000, ISBN 1-84067-050-9 .
• The Constellation Guide Book . Sterling Pub., New York 2000, ISBN 0-8069-3979-6 .
• Atlas of the Moon . Sky Publishing Corp, 2004, ISBN 1-931559-07-4 .
• The Constellations . with Josef Klepešta, Hamlin, London 1969, ISBN 0-600-00893-2 .
• Maps of Lunar Hemispheres. Reidel, Dordrecht 1972, ISBN 90-277-0221-7 , In: Astrophysics and space science library. Vol. 33.
• The Cosmos Atlas Stars and Planets. with Storm Dunlop and Wil Tirion, Kosmos, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-440-10144-4 .

Awards

• Asteroid (15395) Rükl , named after Rükl in 2000
• Bruno H. Bürgel Prize , 2004
• Littera Astronomica, 2004
• Nušl Prize, 2012

Web links

• Literature and other media by and about Antonín Rükl in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
• Literature by and about Antonín Rükl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by A. Rükl in the Astrophysics Data System
• K. Poshedly: Antonín Rükl, 1932–2016 (obituary, English, accessed on July 20, 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Planetarium Prague website
2. ↑ Minor Planet Center: (15395) Rükl
3. ↑ Minor Planet Circular, p. 41388
4. ^ "Hall of Fame" of the Czech Astronomical Society
5. ^ Czech Astronomical Society: František Nušl Prize