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Observations for 2023 August 04


A pleasant surpise in the morning was seeing a report of Beehive's Indicator in eruption only a minute or two after it was sighted. So quickly got moving and had just crossed the bridge when Beehive began erupting. It was still drizzling, and the breeze was pushing the steam over toward Old Faithful (which was erupting, also). Suspect that was a 32hour interval, otherwise this was an extremely short interval of less than eleven hours.

The rains had stopped for several hours by the time it was time to head out to Grand. Spent a total of ten minutes getting a camera in position and ready to go. Just in time, as during the last few minutes the pool looked full and ready. A quick Grand start, preceeded by a boop, with Turban starting a few moments later. It turned out to be a One Burst Eruption. It also makes for about ten eruptions in a row with an interval of around six hours.

2023-Aug-04:12:08:42 G1C

12:08:37	Boop		-0m04s
12:08:40	Vent Ovfl	-0m01s
12:08:42	Grand B1	---	d=10m24s
12:08:46	Turban		0m03s
12:11:40	Vent		2m58s
12:19:06	P1		10m24s
Vent & Turban continue

				     	ΣD=10m24s

More showers, but by the time of the next Grand eruption rolled around, it was dry, and looked like it was going to stay that way. I saw a minor eruption of North Goggles as I walked out past Castle, and of course Sawmill was in eruption.

Got to the Grand Group and everything was quiet. Have seen little to no activity from any of the sput features, and nothing from West Triplet recently. A few minutes later Turban started, and the eruption lasted over 5-1/2 minutes. That was followed by an eruption interval without any overflow from Grand. These are signs that I probably missed a Turban Delay interval.

Except the next Turban interval was well over 25 minutes, with Grand starting (after some boops) at over 27. Turban and Vent both took their time getting started, with the later at over 3-1/2 minutes. The burst lasted just over nine minutes.

It was a steamy pause, but through the fog glimpses of water in the pool could be seen. No fill and drop this time, as we got the second burst. Once again, Vent & Turban quit with a short nine minute pause before restart.

2023-Aug-04:18:25:28 D0/G2Q

18:25:23	Boop		-0m05s
18:25:28	Grand B1	---	d=9m02s
18:26:11	Vent Ovfl	0m43s
18:26:25	Turban		0m57s
18:29:03	Vent		3m35s
18:34:30	P1		9m02s	d=0m49s
18:35:19	B2		9m51s	d=0m48s
18:36:07	P2		10m39s
18:36:49	V&T Quit	11m21s
18:45:50	V&T Restart	20m22s

				     ΣB=9m50s	ΣD=10m39s
	* * * * *
17:40:22			d=5m41s 	
17:58:10	Int: 17m48s	d=4m16s 	
		      Grand: 27m18s

On my way back to the bike, I got to see an eruption of Tilt start as I walked up. Tilt seems taller and more angled, and I noticed that there is no longer any water from Crested Pool going into it. There's also a small hole about 8 meters to the right that I don't remember from last year.