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Observations for 2023 August 28


Was bicycling past the Inn when I noticed there was a lot of steam around Beehive. At first I thought I'd missed the call for the Indicator, but then Beehive started along with an announcement of "no Indicator". So Beehive must've had some huge splashes. Watched the eruption for a bit, then went on to tie up my bike at Castle. Walked out toward Crested, and Beehive was still in eruption, almost six minutes later.

Over at Grand it seemed like I walked up on a Turban Delay Interval, and the following Turban eruption without any Grand overflow seemed to confirm this. The Delay took place well before I'd expected Grand, so I hoped that it meant we'd have only a few Turban eruptions to wait out before getting a relatively short Grand interval.

2023-Aug-28:15:11:28 T1Q

15:10:49	Turban		-0m18s
15:10:53	Vent Ovfl	-0m14s
15:11:08	Grand B1	---	d=10m41s
15:13:30	Vent		2m22s
15:21:49	P1		10m41s
15:22:45	V&T Quit	11m37s

				     	ΣD=10m41s
	* * * * *
11:58:08			d=5m18s 	
12:16:05	Int: 17m57s	d=4m51s 	
12:35:02	Int: 18m57s	d=4m29s 	
12:54:53	Int: 19m51s	d=3m11s 	
13:10:34	Int: 15m41s	d=3m54s 	
13:29:26	Int: 18m52s	d=3m58s 	
13:47:17	Int: 17m50s	d=3m38s 
14:02:49	Int: 15m32s	d=3m40s 
14:21:33	Int: 18m44s	d=3m43s 
14:39:31	Int: 17m57s	d=3m25s 
14:55:40	Int: 16m08s	d=3m31s 
		     Turban: 15m09s

As it turned out, it took Grand 11 Turban eruptions before we got the One Burst Eruption.

The after sunset wait was much better, as there seemed to be no Turban Delay Interval this time, and the One Burst Grand Eruption started near the 6-1/2 hour mark. The conditions were ideal for a nearly full moon eruption, with the usual down slope wind pushing the steam toward the north. But no moonbows this night. And despite the early prediction window, only geyser gazers were present.

2023-Aug-28:21:41:15 T1C

21:41:08	Turban		-0m06s
21:41:15	Grand B1	---	d=10m26s
21:51:41	P1		10m26s
Vent & Turban continue

				     	ΣD=10m26s
	* * * * *
21:01:02			d=4m51s 	
21:20:26	Int: 19m24s	d=4m27s 	
		     Turban: 20m42s