Transcription: There he made meteorological observations and undertook studies of the Sun. Though World War II was imminent, he managed to persuade the Slovak authorities to build an observatory on Sklaty Plaso at an altitude of 1,780 meters above sea level. After the end of the war, this observatory became famous because of Vechváža's comet discoveries together with his photographic atlas of the sky. Somehow he managed to prevent the observatory from destruction by the German troops, but in 1951 he was forced to leave Skelnati Place. He returned to Brandeis where he remained for the rest of his life working ... File Comment Made in Intimate Arts