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Milford Library Looks to the Stars

A professional standard telescope has been donated for residents' use.

A $350 telescope has been donated to Milford Town Library as part of the new state Library Telescope Program, The Milford Daily News reports.

Sue-Ellen Szymanski, the library’s youth services supervisor, and her husband, Robert, donated the Orion StarBlast 4.5-inch Astro Reflector telescope.

"We want more young explorers and astronomers," Szymanksi told The Milford Daily News.

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The telescope is powerful enough to see 7,000 to 8,000 stars out of the range of the naked eye. Residents will be able to rent it out for a week at a time after July 31.

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