OLE staff at play
OLE’s lead software engineer Paul Cézanne spoke to a standing-room-only crowd at the Truro, Massachusetts, library when he gave a presentation on astronomy on August 12th. Cézanne’s interest was obviously shared by the group, which asked lively questions about topics ranging from constellation mythology to UFOs.
His talk was grouped around celestial bodies and events: the Milky Way, the constellations, the moon, Jupiter, and the current Perseid meteor showers. Mixing humor, academics, and his own personal experiences as an amateur astronomer, Cézanne gave a lively talk and then took participants outside to the library’s deck, where he’d set up his Burgess five-inch refractor telescope on a computerized German equatorial mount, and gave everyone the opportunity to take an exciting up-close-and-personal look at the moon and at Jupiter.
Cézanne can often be seen at the base of MacMillan Pier in Provincetown, Massachusetts, inviting passers-by to “come see the moon!”
