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  • Renovation planned for U of I Observatory dome

    Nov 16, 2020 11:15 am by Samantha BoyleCampus Life
    the University of Illinois Observatory, seen across the Morrow Plots. Photo by Brian Stauffer

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    • the University of Illinois Observatory, seen across the Morrow Plots. Photo by Brian Stauffer

    'We want to try to keep the historic feel of the dome itself. It's the original telescope that was there so we do want to keep that original late 19th century feel. It has its own very kind of old-school mystique.'