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Not to diminish your valuable insight, but if they were simulating a sunrise, I doubt they had these at full throttle. My guess is they used old school lightnin

• oasisbob 3y ago
  Oftentimes a simulation will involve "overpowering the sun". You're not doing the lighting in the dark, you're adding light to an existing scene to simulate the sun being where you want it to be. Day for night shooting is a similar idea - by changing color balance and adding more light to emulate the moon - it's possible to give the impression of darkness.
• this_steve_j 3y ago
  Even with the lights operating at half throttle, there is also a significant amount of energy in the non-visible spectrum from 6 of them focused on a small area for 5 hours. It’s amazing the acrylic windows didn’t melt, only the foam seal around them.
  • MadnessASAP 3y ago
    The window panes did melt, or at least deformed and shrunk. That's how they departed the aircraft. The mentioned foam is on the inside of the cabin liner. The interior walls that line the actual pressure hull. The foam seals role is probably noise and vibration reduction, not pressurization.
• danielvf 3y ago
  These are almost always run full power, and if you want less light, you just flip some of the bulbs off. (You can actually see two bulbs off in the far middle fixture in the photo) An yes, they are probably going for an orange glow inside.