Description
Raw observations from a university radio telescope, recorded to tape and never fully analysed.
Provenance
Bought as part of a box of disks at an estate sale and donated anonymously. All files were recovered; 35 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
b2e164f459ec149db945e5c55158c98150c6da7f0f936c5cb2de9102a6f3488e- Last verified
- Oct 17, 2026, by Vigil
- Migrated to
- CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.
Reading-room copies are migrated to CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.
Cite as: North Saltwick Radio Observatory, Radio telescope observations, North Saltwick, 1979–1993 (1979–1993). Lazarus Archive, LZ-03311.