Welcome to the Sutherland Zoo

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Dome

1657
elephant
the elephant is sleeping until sunrise

alt 0000 0907  --- -0deg 44'    az 0000 0169  --- 104deg 02'
weather  RAIN WIND           limits  DOWN               
blind  NOT FULLY OPEN        cloud  N/A

Mount

1658
antelope
positioning mount

guider ----      
ra 0093 0093 *  dec 0747 0801 *
ra STOP         dec UP         
limits NONE 
sun ha  -8h 18m  dec -11deg 24'  rise 03:51 UTC

Detectors

950543
tiger
Reading data from the tiger counters.

                    forward   forward       aft       aft        tm
                       star      port      star      port
      Fred  ratio     +0.00     -2.01     +0.00     +0.00     +0.00
            sum    00006308  00000896  00000000  00000000  00000000

Temperature Controllers

949836
iguana
Controlling temperatures

  ovtop  113.00 C     star   21.00 C     port   14.16 C       if   35.52 C  
  ovbot   26.14 C  hsink_a   41.12 C  hsink_b   30.76 C   case_r   13.69 C  
 case_f   13.08 C

Temperature Monitors

1661
lizard
monitoring temperatures

 tank_t    4.22 C   tank_b  165.93 C     room    8.21 C      amb    3.21 C  
   spec    9.62 C     dome    4.54 C    cloud    5.03 V

Watchdogs

1647
eagle
Flying over the zoo

1655
turkey
Flying over the zoo