* Astronomy

Behind an unmarked door in the Lyme-Old Lyme High School auditorium, up two spiral staircases and shrouded in darkness sits an aluminium dome.
It's something you don't often see in a public school - an observatory that rotates on a motor and houses a Meade 12.5-inch reflecting telescope that, according to a June 19, 1983, New York Times article, is powerful enough to make Jupiter's moons visible.
Its future, though, may be as dim as some of the celestial objects it's used to find. That's because plans for the renovation of the school call for dismantling the observatory and placing it in storage with the telescope. There is no money set aside to reinstall the observatory as part of the new school.

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