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Observations for 2026 September 05


The trip down to the Bijou Cage at dawn resulted in a Standard Bathtub about an hour after I arrived, at 07:38.

There wasn't much of a wait for the morning One Burst Grand Eruption. West Triplet started during that eruption.

2026-Sep-05 : 10:42:15 T1Q

 10:41:48	Turban	-0m27s
 10:42:09	Boop	-0m06s
 10:42:15	B1	--- d=11m08s
 10:46:12	Vent	3m57s
 10:53:23	P1	11m08s
 10:54:16	V&T Quit	12m01s

				     	ΣD=11m08s
	* * * * *
 09:58:26			d=04m07s	
 10:18:09	Int: 19m43s	d=04m09s	
 10:47:37	West Triplet
		     Turban: 23m39s

Back in the Bijou Cage there wasn't much to see. A bunch of large Mastiff surges, but at best a minor slowdown from Bijou itself.

Did get the Beehive Indicator call, and got over in plenty of time. Unfortunately, it was windy and the wind kept shifting. When it started coming toward me, I ran through the rainstorm to the other side, toward Plume, and was out of the rain the rest of the eruption. A lot of people got soaked.

The less said about the next Grand wait the better. I arrived to see West Triplet in eruption and not only did Rift start a one hour eruption shortly after, but Grand had a Turban Delay Interval.

For the next five hours, we had a series of Turban eruptions with short durations (at one point, less than three minutes), and varying but short intervals. Finally, Percolator recovered from the Rift activity and began sputtering away, and a Turban eruption interval the few of us who waited it all out got a brightly lit One Burst Grand Eruption.

2026-Sep-05 : 21:58:11 D16/T1Q

 21:58:08	Turban	-0m03s
 21:58:11	B1	--- d=11m08s
 22:09:19	P1	11m08s
 22:10:27	V&T Quit	12m16s

				     	ΣD=11m08s
	* * * * *
 16:42:41ie	West Triplet
 16:57:52ns	Rift
 17:09:04			d=04m54s D0	
 17:27:29	Int: 18m25s	d=04m14s D1	
 17:47:20	Int: 19m51s	d=03m57s D2	
 18:07:17	Int: 19m57s	d=03m41s D3	
 18:26:50	Int: 19m33s	d=03m30s D4	
 18:44:13	Int: 17m23s	d=03m19s D5	
 19:02:43	Int: 18m30s	d=03m06s D6	
 19:20:09	Int: 17m26s	d=03m29s D7	
 19:40:28	Int: 20m19s	d=03m43s D8	
 19:58:21	Int: 17m53s	d=03m28s D9	
 20:15:36	Int: 17m15s	d=03m00s D10	
 20:31:55	Int: 16m19s	d=02m42s D11	
 20:48:52	Int: 16m57s	d=03m22s D12	
 21:06:45	Int: 17m53s	d=03m25s D13	
 21:25:09	Int: 18m24s	d=02m57s D14	
 21:41:52	Int: 16m43s	d=03m16s D15	
		     Turban: 16m19s