Description
Raw observations from a university radio telescope, recorded to tape and never fully analysed.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
a1d747c3c0d98446931d995a0fcff2796eb3a8e180d40be36944d1c5c505b168- Last verified
- Oct 24, 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. Copies may be taken away.
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: Willowridge Radio Observatory, Radio telescope observations, Willowridge, 1999–2012 (1999–2012). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14037.