Welcome to the Sutherland Zoo

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Dome

2158
elephant
the elephant is sleeping until sunrise

alt 0000 0902  --- -0deg 11'    az 0000 0204  --- 93deg 40'
weather  WIND                limits  NONE               
blind  NOT FULLY OPEN        cloud  N/A

Mount

2140
antelope
positioning mount

guider ----      
ra 0407 0109 *  dec 0778 0778 *
ra RIGHT        dec STOP       
limits NONE 
sun ha  +9h 32m  dec  -2deg 37'  rise 04:18 UTC

Detectors

2126
tiger
Reading data from the tiger counters.

                    forward   forward       aft       aft        tm
                       star      port      star      port
      Fred  ratio     +0.32     -2.64     +0.00     +0.00     +0.00
            sum    00005917  00001816  00000000  00000000  00000000

Temperature Controllers

1659
iguana
Controlling temperatures

  ovtop  113.21 C     star   14.92 C     port   14.71 C       if   11.35 C  
  ovbot   26.90 C  hsink_a   40.06 C  hsink_b   28.61 C   case_r   12.18 C  
 case_f   14.56 C

Temperature Monitors

2363
lizard
monitoring temperatures

 tank_t    0.99 C   tank_b    0.00 C     room    7.91 C      amb  165.98 C  
   spec   10.93 C     dome    7.37 C

Watchdogs

1649
eagle
Flying over the zoo

2121
turkey
Flying over the zoo