Description
A webring that linked 54 hobbyist sites about astronomy, and the member sites that could still be recovered.
Provenance
Captured from the live site, then completed from users’ own saved copies. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
fa7f252a0432aa321da61cd64229f672f69907648b2e3886bf6b42149b39e863- Last verified
- Sep 8, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-WEB1-4 · lz-browser core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- None. Captured over the network.
Access
Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-WEB1-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the web.
Cite as: Nils Nguyen, The Astronomy Ring (1996–2001). Lazarus Archive, LZ-06940.