Back from the light design conference in Drammen - Norway

At the Lighting Design Conference in Drammen - Norway
Busy days… things have [somewhat unexpectedly] changed in my professional life (I’ll blog about this when I’m settled. I just anticipate I’m still an astronomer ;-)), and this comes at a time where many other things are happening.
Our paper on the very old stars was re-submitted after the first pass of the second referee. Now there is one serious point that needs to be addressed, which is the possibility that those stars are actually pre-Main-Sequence stars. I’ll write more in a future post.
Another article on the connection between recurrent novae and Type Ia Supernovae has just been accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics. This is currently my main field of research, and the work gave me quite some satisfaction. More on this will come if the paper submitted by my colleague Assaf Sternberg will be finally accepted by the prestigious journal Science. But I will get back on this with more details.
Last week, I was in Drammen (Norway), giving the opening speech at the Lighting Design Conference. Here the audience was very much receptive of the issues related to light pollution, and the attitude was very much collaborative. Lots ...