Welcome to the Sutherland Zoo

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Dome

2151
elephant
dome pointing at sun

alt 0000 0857  --- +4deg 45'    az 0000 0822  --- 272deg 37'
weather  WIND                limits  DOWN               
blind  FULLY OPEN            cloud  N/A

Mount

2501294
antelope
positioning mount

guider FOLLOW    
ra 0610 0611    dec 0769 0770  
ra TRACK        dec STOP       
limits NONE 
sun ha  +5h 38m  dec  -0deg 21'  rise 04:44 UTC

Detectors

2542109
tiger
Reading data from the tiger counters.

                    forward   forward       aft       aft        tm
                       star      port      star      port
      Fred  ratio     +1.30     +0.00     +0.00     +0.00     +7.69
            sum    00006869  00000000  00000000  00000000  00000143

Temperature Controllers

2412163
iguana
Controlling temperatures

  ovtop  113.04 C     star   21.45 C     port   20.95 C       if   19.07 C  
  ovbot  -99.99 C  hsink_a   41.21 C  hsink_b   38.75 C   case_r   19.82 C  
 case_f   21.78 C

Temperature Monitors

1664
lizard
monitoring temperatures

 tank_t    0.15 C   tank_b    0.17 C     room   14.54 C      amb  166.28 C  
   spec   17.63 C     dome   12.38 C

Watchdogs

1652
eagle
Flying over the zoo

2121
turkey
Flying over the zoo