Joining us on the Meridian today we have Colin Carlile, the former  director of the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL).  He came to Sweden to  (successfully) head up the Swedish bid to locate the European Spallation  Source here in Lund, and after formally retiring he decided to do a  master degree in astronomy here at Lund Observatory.

In this second season of the Meridian we are also bringing you some  field reporting from the Nordic Optical Telescope on La Palma, where a  team of Lund Observatory astronomers have been trying to catch an  ultra-hot Jupiter-sized exoplanet.   

In this instalment clouds are making it impossible to observe, so Nic  invites the support astronomer, Sara Vitali, to share her experiences of  how it is to work on the mountain-top.

The Meridian is produced by Lund Observatory.  For more information, and  pictures, please visit our website: www.astro.lu.se/TheMeridian

Note that in this podcast series there is a significant risk we may  mention astrophysics, planetary science, astronomy research, PhD   studies, telescopes, both space based and ground based observatories,   telescope development, space missions, astronauts, Earth science,   particle physics, stars, planets, moons, galaxies, nebulae, stellar   clusters, cosmology, astrometry, ESA, NASA, ISS, astronomers,  instrumentation, data  reduction, spectroscopy, photometry, exoplanets  (from exo-Earths to  ultra-hot Jupiters), simulations and modelling,  solar science and solar  storms, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets,  stellar evolution, supernovae  and many more space related topics.