Kamil Hornoch [SEP] occupation
Kamil Hornoch
Kamil Hornoch (; born 5 December 1972) is a Czech amateur astronomer who discovered dozens of novae in nearby galaxies. The main belt asteroid 14124 Kamil is named in his honour.
Astronomy.
Kamil Hornoch became interested in astronomy in 1984. One year later he started with his scientific observations of comets, meteors, the solar photosphere, variable stars, the planets and occultations. He lives in Lelekovice, a village in the South Moravian Region, the Czech Republic.
Hornoch makes most of his observations
the field of interplanetary matter.
- In 2001 Lenka Šarounová named the main belt asteroid 14124 Kamil in his honour.
- In 2003 he received the Jindřich Šilhán Award of the Variable Star Observer of the Year () of the Czech Astronomical Society.
- In 2006 Kamil Hornoch won the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.