Welcome to the Las Campanas Zoo

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Dome

1568
elephant
dome pointing at sun

alt 0000 0826  --- +17deg 18'    az 0000 0334  --- 52deg 13'
weather  FINE                limits  NONE               
blind  FULLY OPEN            cloud    7% FINE           



Mount

1550
antelope
positioning mount

guider FINELOCK  
ra 0276 0274    dec 0437 0440  
ra GUIDE        dec GUIDE      
limits NONE 
sun ha  -3h 37m  dec +21deg 32'  rise 11:29 UTC



Detectors

1555
leopard
reading data from the counters
 
                  starbord      port        tm
Hannibal   ratio    +13.18    +21.82     +0.00
           sum    00057183  00078973  00000000



Temperature Controllers

1528
iguana
Controlling temperatures

h_ovtop  126.99 C   h_star   20.08 C   h_port   20.04 C     h_if   38.03 C  
h_ovbot   95.08 C     hs_a   28.60 C     hs_b   21.57 C    caser   41.99 C  
  casef   51.40 C  



Temperature Monitors

1541
lizard
monitoring temperatures

 h_back   17.57 C    cloud    0.19 V      amb   15.11 C     room   16.78 C  
   tank   18.33 C  



Watchdogs

1494
eagle
Flying over the zoo

1523
turkey
Flying over the zoo