Description
Raw observations from a university radio telescope, recorded to tape and never fully analysed.
Provenance
Donated by the creator in 2020. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
cd60e8d7759b11dac8d401c5cc25fd54706f16bb01b72774cd49bf08d91977d6- Last verified
- Oct 19, 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: Port Ashhurst Radio Observatory, Radio telescope observations, Port Ashhurst, 1978–1982 (1978–1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-30991.