\nI realized just in time that I\u2019d miscalculated when to go out to Grand. So I arrived in the dark just in time to catch a long Turban eruption. That was followed by a long interval, and an explosive Grand start. If I\u2019d kept with the earlier estimate, I\u2019d definitely have missed it.\n<\/p>\n
\nAt around the 8-1\/2 minute point Grand slowed down and for about 15 seconds just played around. Usually it seems that it picks back up after one of those slowdowns, but this time it did quit. A car in the Inn parking lot illuminated the area nicely during the pause, but you could see someones shadow pass in front of the lights before it went off. Then Grand\u2019s second burst started. And kept on going for almost 2-1\/2 minutes. So it was nice to have the second burst, but it would have been even nicer to have gotten a third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I realized just in time that I\u2019d miscalculated when to go out to Grand. So I arrived in the dark just in time to catch a long Turban eruption. That was followed by a long interval, and an explosive Grand start. If I\u2019d kept with the earlier estimate, I\u2019d definitely have missed it. At around … Continue reading \"Observations for 29 August 2014\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}