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From left to right: 2 spindles from Serbia, an alleged spindle from Hungary and 5 spindles from Bulgaria
Who says orange and pink clash?
Industrious, delicate, colourful. The spindle is at its loveliest in autumn when its leaves turn russet and its pink and orange fruits ripen. Wildlife loves its leaves and fruit, and aphids flock to it, bringing with them an array of their predators.
Spindle is an ancient-woodland indicator. If you spot it while out exploring, it could be a sign of a rare and special habitat.
Spindle timber is creamy-white, hard and dense. In the past it was used to make ‘spindles’ for spinning and holding wool (hence its name), as well as skewers, toothpicks, pegs and knitting needles.
The fruits were baked and powdered, and used to treat head lice or mange in cattle!
Both the leaves and fruit are toxic to humans – the berries having a laxative effect.
Today, spindle timber is used to make high-quality charcoal for artists. Cultivated forms of the tree are also grown in gardens for autumn colour.
3 purpleheart Russian lace spindles & thread winders atop 2 nålbound spindle pouches (left one is Åsle stitch, the right one Oslo -- both with Reynolds Lopi burgundy icelandic yarn). In-progress on the spindle is homespun natural cotton. 6/15/07
Spindle - Berwyn, Ilinois, USA.
Destroyed in 2006 to make space for some drug store with drive thru...
More spindles I made. These are exotic woods like purpleheart, canarywood, and bloodwood. All are made using layers of 1/8" or 1/4" thick shapes. Some spindles have cherry shafts, the rest use generic plain dowels.
Manufacturer/Model: Spindler & Hoyer Gottinga 8X Modell B, 8X24
Field of View: Estimate 6.3 deg = 110 m/1,000 m; APFOV 50.4 deg
Weight: 488 gr.
Exit Pupil: 3 mm
Serial #/Year of Manufacture: 44979 = Probably 1920’s
Notes: Overall a satisfactory binocular but not outstanding. Build quality is certainly not as high as that of comparable models made by Zeiss or Ross (prism seating a little insecure, no baffling, collimation by manual prism adjustment instead of eccentric rings) but still better than that of many of the low-cost French 8X24’s flooding the market during this period. The center focus mechanism is actually quite good and is very much like the fine one Ross used on its Stepruva, Stepron and Stepnada Porro I models. Under normal daylight conditions optical performance is alright but with a rather narrow FOV.
Spindler & Hoyer continued to make binoculars after World War II at least into the late 1950's. A Cogswell & Harrison catalog dated 1959 offers four Spindler & Hoyer binoculars, all center focus and with coated optics - a Gonom 6X24, Goett 6X30, Moacht 8X30, and Goa 8X30.
Revised May 12, 2012
Note: If you have a vintage binocular you either wish to sell or would just like some information about, I can be contacted at flagorio12@gmail.com .
#0969: Those yellow filament-like crowns on the background are actually cactus spines from a bunny-ear cactus glowing in the sun. Location: Huntington Garden, San Marino CA
The moon had set, and the night was crystal clear but very cold. Even from my suburban backyard, NGC 3115 (the Spindle Galaxy) was not difficult to see in the 155mm refractor. A bright nucleus surrounded by an extended sphere of light with thin straight arms spreading outward in opposite directions. It was a fine sight.
This galaxy was missed by Messier but made the Caldwell List (#53) and the Herschel 400 list, so it is often visited and enjoyed by amateur astronomers. NGC 3115 has the distinction of having the nearest-to-Earth, billion-plus solar-mass black hole. With an active 2 billion solar-mass black hole at is core it is not a surprise that its bright nucleus shows so well in the eyepiece.
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