Welcome to the Sutherland Zoo

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Dome

1638
elephant
the elephant is sleeping until sunrise

alt 0000 0906  --- -0deg 41'    az 0000 0132  --- 114deg 50'
weather  WIND                limits  DOWN               
blind  NOT FULLY OPEN        cloud  N/A

Mount

1641
antelope
positioning mount

guider ----      
ra 0602 0075 *  dec 0841 0827 *
ra RIGHT        dec DOWN       
limits NONE 
sun ha  -9h 01m  dec -20deg 23'  rise 03:52 UTC

Detectors

537365
tiger
Reading data from the tiger counters.

                    forward   forward       aft       aft        tm
                       star      port      star      port
      Fred  ratio     -0.00     +0.00     +0.00     +0.00     +0.00
            sum    00731715  00001168  00000000  00000000  00000300

Temperature Controllers

538935
iguana
Controlling temperatures

  ovtop   23.71 C     star   20.99 C     port   59.86 C       if   38.00 C  
  ovbot  -99.99 C  hsink_a   56.97 C  hsink_b   71.26 C   case_r   31.83 C  
 case_f   34.13 C

Temperature Monitors

1640
lizard
monitoring temperatures

 tank_t   14.35 C   tank_b  166.35 C     room   18.46 C      amb  166.43 C  
   spec   20.74 C     dome   17.18 C    cloud    5.04 V

Watchdogs

3170
eagle
Flying over the zoo

1637
turkey
Flying over the zoo