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. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
0c16d0bf0c4c596156bb0f0ce9ea36ebd3e68398e186fa14dccdcc230ef35719- Last verified
- Sep 23, 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
- None. Captured over the network.
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: Rockport Springs Radio Observatory, Radio telescope observations, Rockport Springs, 2008–2017 (2008–2017). Lazarus Archive, LZ-30872.