Welcome to the Sutherland Zoo

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Dome

1486
elephant
dome pointing at sun

alt 0000 0909  --- -1deg 02'    az 0000 0913  --- 246deg 09'
weather  WIND                limits  DOWN               
blind  FULLY OPEN            cloud  N/A

Mount

32012
antelope
positioning mount

guider ----      
ra 0649 0078 *  dec 0823 0823 *
ra RIGHT        dec STOP       
limits NONE 
sun ha  +6h 57m  dec -19deg 23'  rise 03:57 UTC

Detectors

32299
tiger
Reading data from the tiger counters.

                    forward   forward       aft       aft        tm
                       star      port      star      port
      Fred  ratio     -0.32     +0.00     +0.00     +0.00     -0.47
            sum    00005704  00000000  00000000  00000000  00000428

Temperature Controllers

1460
iguana
Controlling temperatures

  ovtop  113.03 C     star   26.37 C     port   26.80 C       if   34.82 C  
  ovbot   37.65 C  hsink_a   48.08 C  hsink_b   44.57 C   case_r   24.08 C  
 case_f   23.86 C

Temperature Monitors

1454
lizard
monitoring temperatures

 tank_t   22.43 C   tank_b  166.39 C     room   20.13 C      amb  166.48 C  
   spec   22.89 C     dome   21.83 C    cloud    5.03 V

Watchdogs

1366
eagle
Flying over the zoo

1449
turkey
Flying over the zoo