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Welcome to the Sutherland Zoo

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Dome

1426
elephant
dome pointing at sun

alt 0000 0495  --- +44deg 45'    az 0000 0500  --- 6deg 56'
weather  WIND                limits  NONE               
blind  FULLY OPEN            cloud  N/A


Mount

25490
antelope
positioning mount

guider FINELOCK  
ra 0359 0356    dec 0731 0733  
ra GUIDE        dec GUIDE      
limits NONE 
sun ha  -0h 20m  dec +12deg 37'  rise 05:11 UTC


Detectors

25493
tiger
Reading data from the tiger counters.

                    forward   forward       aft       aft        tm
                       star      port      star      port
      Fred  ratio     +6.45     +4.06     +0.00     +0.00     +6.33
            sum    00228409  00289555  00000000  00000000  00035932


Temperature Controllers

25530
iguana
Controlling temperatures

  ovtop  113.00 C     star   21.02 C     port   20.36 C       if   38.04 C  
  ovbot   31.46 C  hsink_a   41.40 C  hsink_b   38.36 C   case_r   16.57 C  
 case_f   16.59 C


Temperature Monitors

1760
lizard
monitoring temperatures

 tank_t   13.85 C   tank_b  166.13 C     room   12.61 C      amb  166.21 C  
   spec   17.08 C     dome   17.22 C    cloud    3.79 V


Watchdogs

25489
eagle
Flying over the zoo


1416
turkey
Flying over the zoo
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