Continuum photoabsorption of lithium chloride ͑LiCl͒ was investigated using a coupled-channel time-dependent wave packet approach. Photodissociation cross sections for the production of ground-state Li and Cl atoms were computed up to temperatures of 1500 K for a thermal distribution of rotational levels. At such temperatures, LiCl is believed to be the primary Li-bearing gas in cool stellar atmospheres. Narrow Rydberg resonances in the total absorption spectrum are found to dominate the

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... ly averaged cross section due to the large density of Rydberg states in the predissociation gap. Comparison with measured photoabsorption cross sections, where available, is made.