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 tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
7007041f86655ed7e6eb4220fb38e5ea3802022411b11fc445b42e759facdfa3- Last verified
- Oct 22, 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 under the work’s license.
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: East Cedarstead Radio Observatory, Radio telescope observations, East Cedarstead, 1976–1981 (1976–1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14912.