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Does anyone know what this is?

A student project working model of the Jodrell Bank Observatory.

spot wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2020 1:29 pm A student project working model of the Jodrell Bank Observatory.

No prizes for you.

An incubator for chicks or weed?

Bryn Mawr wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2020 3:21 pm An incubator for chicks or weed?

No prizes for you

as if I'd advertise growing weed on the WWW

I will hopefully set it to work in the next 24 hours and update you with further photos.

hmmm I might not having just seen a weather update.

Keep guessing.

A clue will be that it is used outdoors.

Betty Boop wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2020 2:46 am

Bryn Mawr wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2020 3:21 pm An incubator for chicks or weed?

No prizes for you

as if I'd advertise growing weed on the WWW

Well it looks like a light bulb under a reflector over a container so an incubator but the light bulb is low energy so no heat thus the weed

No, that's definitely a wave reflector. It could be an outdoor 10W line of sight microwave communications link. Or If it has water cooling it could be an autonomous military missile defence laser but they're not likely to arrive in the post.

Still too wet round these parts.

Well, grow light seems to be a logical option, but whatever it would be growing would be minimal, in that size a box.
some kind of insect related project, perhaps.

I'd decided it was a snake feeder.

LarsMac wrote: Thu Jun 11, 2020 7:08 pm Well, grow light seems to be a logical option, but whatever it would be growing would be minimal, in that size a box.
some kind of insect related project, perhaps.

Warm

And when the weather improves I'll get it set up properly and report back again

Break in the rain.

mosquito trap?
Some sort of flying bug trap, anyway.

LarsMac wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2020 1:30 pm mosquito trap?
Some sort of flying bug trap, anyway.

You get the prize, it is a trap. For moths. Its actually my brothers and he takes it about the local area, sets it up, leaves it overnight and then records what he catches. This becomes a snapshot of what numbers and species are around.

I left the trap out all night and nothing when I looked this morning! Shame the weather isn't better, had it been a warmer less rain threatening night I might have caught something to photograph and show you guys.

Maybe we can continue this game?

What's that?

A moth.

Looks like a Miller

I hate them. I'm glad they have moved on this season.

looks like a moth or a giant fly. Is it from that trap?

It might be one of those secret government surveillance automaton devices with a camera and microphone, they perch on curtain rails and film you constantly.

It is a Privet Hawk Moth, possibly the biggest moth I've ever seen. The photo was taken at dusk as I was releasing it, those stripes were actually a vivid bright pink, it really was very pretty. Yes it was caught in the trap.

It took me one day to realize that the name of that pic is already a correct answer