Welcome to the Las Campanas Zoo

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Dome

1475
elephant
the elephant is sleeping until sunrise

alt 0000 1005  --- -0deg 33'    az 0000 0253  --- 75deg 51'
weather  FINE                limits  DOWN               
blind  NOT FULLY OPEN        cloud  N/A

Mount

20794
antelope
positioning mount

guider ----      
ra 0193 0192 *  dec 0458 0465 *
ra STOP         dec UP         
limits NONE 
sun ha  -6h 13m  dec +12deg 37'  rise 11:13 UTC

Detectors

1477
leopard
reading data from the counters
 
                  starbord      port        tm
Hannibal   ratio     +1.23     +0.49    +28.93
           sum    00001387  00002026  00000363
 
                  starbord      port        tm
Ivan       ratio     -0.24     +0.00     +0.00
           sum    00001271  00000000  00000000

Temperature Controllers

1476
iguana
Controlling temperatures

h_ovtop  127.00 C   h_star   22.49 C   h_port   22.49 C     h_if   37.99 C  
h_ovbot   95.46 C     hs_a   28.17 C     hs_b   20.34 C    caser   38.96 C  
  casef   49.07 C

Temperature Monitors

1474
lizard
monitoring temperatures

 h_back   17.86 C   h_base  107.24 C    cloud    0.00 V     i_if   35.14 C  
 i_port   20.39 C   i_star   20.24 C   i_oven  119.62 C      amb   14.73 C  
   room   15.20 C     tank   18.53 C

Watchdogs

1452
eagle
Flying over the zoo

1473
turkey
Flying over the zoo