Comment originally posted at NASAWATCH
Tod Lauer has good eyes, that is definitely Owen’s Valley Radio Observatory gear, which was a partner with the UFRO on various studies, the last of which I believe was the 1995 Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet impact of Jupiter.
The 40M Power difference spectrum that is printed out is likely data from the Owens Valley 40 meter dish, from an observation of what I’m willing to bet is the binary star V0696 Monocerotis, (aka HR2142).
In one of the photos there is a piece of masking tape that says “31 Aug 01″, and in the root directory of the photographer’s website, the ‘nasa’ subdirectory is dated:
03-Sep-2007 17:03
Point is, Gizmodo may have found this post recently, but the trespass happened at least a year ago, and if the masking tape is any indicator, it was 7 years ago.