Named in memory of the Czech astronomer Antonín Bežcvážr (1901–1965), founder and first director of the Skalnaté Pleso {see planet  (2619)} Observatory in Slovakia. Bežcvážr made observations of comets, meteors and the solar photosphere, but he is best known as the author of Atlas Coeli and the more detailed Atlases Eclipticalis, Borealis and Australis. (M 21956) _ _.