Summer isn’t stopping the Technical Committee

Our Technical Committee isn’t letting summer get in the way of having fun in shop working on projects. Last month the Committee started working on ideas for incorporating shielding and filters in existing lighting fixtures.

In the past couple of weeks they have started to turn their ideas into reality, buying a contemporary outdoor lighting fixture to dissect and test their ideas.

Technical Committee members transform their ideas from paper to reality and started testing a variety of shielding options this week on an actual outdoor lighting fixture on Tuesday.
Wilson Jimenez set up a portable light pole yesterday for testing the Technical Committee’s work. Here City staff help Wilson with position the pole, now mounted with the lighting fixture and the first filter test.
  • Testing shield angles
  • A mock-up shield and filter
  • Technical Committee in the shop
  • Tim measuring illuminance from mock-up shield and filter design

Let us know if this Initiative is important to you, if you are willing to get involved, and what else you think we should be doing to improve, preserve, and protect the night skies in Ivins. We will get back to you as soon as possible.