As the long autumn nights begin | How to adjust your lighting for the long nights

After the autumnal equinox, the sun sets much earlier. Before you know it, it's dark outside, and the nights spent at home become longer—this is known as "long autumn nights."

Precisely because you spend more time at home, adjusting your nighttime lighting slightly can make the period from evening to bedtime more comfortable.

There's no need to keep the brightness "constant" at night

Some people find that spending the entire night with the same brightness can make it feel monotonous. By gradually dimming the light as time passes—bright during dinner, then more subdued for relaxing—you can align with a natural daily rhythm.

Recommended ways to use light on autumn nights

• Dinner/Family time: Bright cool white to daylight white, with enough brightness to clearly see faces and food.
• Relaxing time: Warm light of incandescent color (around 3000K), with reduced brightness.
• Before bed: Create a pre-sleep environment with subtle lighting that illuminates only the essential areas around you.

Switching color temperature and brightness by time

The key is to have a single unit that can switch both color temperature and brightness. With a dimmable and color-tunable ceiling light, you can change the light from bright white in the evening to warm incandescent light at night, all with a single remote control. For more on color temperature, please refer to What is color temperature? How to read Kelvin.

In the case of lipro

The Sunlight Ceiling Light can be adjusted from 3000K incandescent to 5000K daylight white, with brightness from 0-100%, all via remote control. You can change the light to match the time of day, from evening into night.

Summary: Adjusting light precisely because nights are long

Autumn, with its long nights, is a season where adjusting light can make a noticeable difference. Simply changing the brightness and color temperature throughout the evening can make your nights a little more comfortable.

Reference information

• lipro "Sunlight Ceiling Light"
  https://jp.lipro.com/ja-jp/products/ceiling-light-ja