[Geysers] Geyser report Tuesday June 14

[Whitledge, Vicki M.]

Scott Bryan wrote:
 
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> Please keep this in mind, and try to keep accurate records AND PASS THEM ALONG. Also, make sure your >watch is correct -- today somebody (I do not know who) was off by almost 2 minutes.
 
Just in case your interested, it is possible for two people who are fairly careful, but not excessively obsessed to appear to have eruption times that are two minutes off of each other.  All it takes is for one person's watch to be 35 seconds ahead of official atomic time and  the other's to be 35 seconds behind atomic time.  If, for example, an eruption then occurred at exactly 13:04:30 atomic time, one person's watch (when read to the minute) would read 13:05 and the other's 13:03.  So having someone appear to be two minutes off of "your" time is probably not a big deal unless you know that your watch is accurate pretty much to the second. 
 
I would rather have a report that has an error of less than 5 minutes than no report at all...
 
Vicki Whitledge
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