Simulating The Sun With NTU SkyDome

We built this one-off lighting fixture for the client’s experimental needs. The client’s brief was to be able to subject experimental devices to the effects of artificial sunlight. To simulate the changing azimuth of the sun’s path, we built a dome so that the parabolic arm housing the light source can move to the different hours of daylight. The sun’s rays itself was simulated by a xenon arc light, the closest man-man light to the sun’s light spectrum. Professional training is required when using such specialized equipment. The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) School of Mechanical Engineering appointed us as the lighting consultant because of our expertise in customized light piece fabrication.