Description
Raw observations from a university radio telescope, recorded to tape and never fully analysed.
Provenance
Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. A few hundred bad sectors were retried until all but a handful read. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
2f923ce2366b22bdd18b38eb6ad121bc9df83c01015445d1b31d1ddee447f969- Last verified
- Oct 3, 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: Riverford Radio Observatory, Radio telescope observations, Riverford, 1997–1998 (1997–1998). Lazarus Archive, LZ-28913.