Reptile Lamp Database

Colorimetry is the science to describe physically the human color perception. The wavelength range 380 nm - 780 nm is visible to humans and detected by three different photoreceptors. Many Reptiles see the range 350 nm - 800 nm and have an additional UV photoreceptor in their retina.

WARNING: The measurement range (350 - 800 nm) is not sufficient for this evaluation! Data is only available in the range 295.5 - 650 nm. Results are shown anyway but should be ignored by anyone except experts.

Whereas a spectrometer measures the intensity in every tiny wavelength interval resulting in thousands of individual intensities, the human eye only measures three intensities detected by the three cones. The same is true for the reptile eye with usually three or four photoreceptors. Effectively the detailled spectrum displayed above reduces to a much compacter bar graph displayed below. The photoreceptor sensitivites from these L-Cone, M-Cone, S-Cone, and U-Cone are used, they are chosen as an average of measured reptile photoreceptor sensitivity curves. The bar graph also shows as reference the intensity seen by the three or four photoreceptors for average sunlight (id 1).

From these three numbers the colour coordinate and the correlated colour temperature for humans are calculated using the CIE standard method. I adapted this concept to a "3 cone reptile (M,S,U)" and a "4 cone reptile (L,M,S,U)". I am sure, that this adaption to other colour spaces makes sense mathematically and this is also done in scientific research regarding colour vision of animals, however I have not seen calculation of colour temperatures for other animals in the scientific literature. Even if it is hypothetical, at least this shows, how arbitrary the colour temperature is, and that the colour temperature calculated for humans does not apply to reptiles. The colour spaces also show the colour coordinates of different phases of daylight ((ids 1, 338 – 451, 511 – 513 ), indicated by crosses, coloured in the appriximate colour perceived by a human.

	Human (CIE)	3 cone reptile	4 cone reptile
Cone Excitation
Colour Coordinate	( 0.31 ; 0.34 )	( 0.41 ; 0.37 )	( 0.26 ; 0.31 ; 0.27 )
CCT	6700 Kelvin	4800 Kelvin	5500 Kelvin
distance		0.031	0.043
colour space			3-D-graph not implemented yet

Vitamin D3 is produced by UVB radiation around 300 nm. 7DHC/ProD3 present in the skin is converted to PreD3 when absorbing an UV photon. PreD3 can be converted back to ProD3, to Lumisterol, or to Tachysterol when absorbing another UV photon or can be converted to Vitamin D3 in a warm environment.

This process prevents any overdose of vitamin D3 from UV radiation with a spectrum similar to sunlight. As a comparison the solar spectra at 20°(id:14) and at 85°(id:21) solar angle are shown.

The ratio of the two solarmeters 6.2 (UVB) and 6.5 (UV index) readings has proven a useful and very simply number to acess the spectral shape in the vitamin-d3-active region.

Effective irradiances are calculated for all ranges, actionspectra and radiometers currently present in this database.

The calculation method is a numerical implementation (Simpson's rule) of the formula

To learn more about calculating effective irradiances and radiometers I recommend this excellent report on UVB meters: Characterizing the Performance of Integral Measuring UV-Meters (pdf).

total ( 0 nm - 0 nm)	22100 µW/cm² = 221 W/m²
UVC ( 0 nm - 280 nm)	0 µW/cm² = 0 W/m²
non-terrestrial ( 0 nm - 290 nm)	0 µW/cm² = 0 W/m²
total2 ( 250 nm - 880 nm)	22100 µW/cm² = 221 W/m²
UVB (EU) ( 280 nm - 315 nm)	58.3 µW/cm² = 0.583 W/m²
UVB (US) ( 280 nm - 320 nm)	107 µW/cm² = 1.07 W/m²
UVA+B ( 280 nm - 380 nm)	1940 µW/cm² = 19.4 W/m²
Solar UVB ( 290 nm - 315 nm)	58.3 µW/cm² = 0.583 W/m²
UVA D3 regulating ( 315 nm - 335 nm)	410 µW/cm² = 4.1 W/m²
UVA (EU) ( 315 nm - 380 nm)	1880 µW/cm² = 18.8 W/m²
UVA2 (medical definition) ( 320 nm - 340 nm)	467 µW/cm² = 4.67 W/m²
UVA (US) ( 320 nm - 380 nm)	1830 µW/cm² = 18.3 W/m²
UVA1 (variant) ( 335 nm - 380 nm)	1470 µW/cm² = 14.7 W/m²
UVA1 (medical) ( 340 nm - 400 nm)	2170 µW/cm² = 21.7 W/m²
vis. UVA ( 350 nm - 380 nm)	1070 µW/cm² = 10.7 W/m²
VIS Rep3 ( 350 nm - 600 nm)	17800 µW/cm² = 178 W/m²
VIS Rep4 ( 350 nm - 700 nm)	21300 µW/cm² = 213 W/m²
purple ( 380 nm - 420 nm)	2130 µW/cm² = 21.3 W/m²
VIS ( 380 nm - 780 nm)	20200 µW/cm² = 202 W/m²
PAR ( 400 nm - 700 nm)	19400 µW/cm² = 194 W/m²
blue ( 420 nm - 490 nm)	5700 µW/cm² = 57 W/m²
green ( 490 nm - 575 nm)	7380 µW/cm² = 73.8 W/m²
yellow ( 575 nm - 585 nm)	754 µW/cm² = 7.54 W/m²
orange ( 585 nm - 650 nm)	4220 µW/cm² = 42.2 W/m²
red ( 650 nm - 780 nm)	0 µW/cm² = 0 W/m²
IRA ( 700 nm - 1400 nm)	0 µW/cm² = 0 W/m²
IRB ( 1400 nm - 3000 nm)	0 µW/cm² = 0 W/m²

Erythema	2.54 UV-Index
Pyrimidine dimerization of DNA	37.1 µW/cm²
Photoceratitis	2.88 µW/cm²
Photoconjunctivitis	0.0246 µW/cm²
DNA Damage	0.087
Vitamin D3	9.3 µW/cm²
Photosynthesis	12700 µW/cm²
Luminosity	59200 lx
Human L-Cone	8720 µW/cm²
Human M-Cone	7620 µW/cm²
Human S-Cone	4650 µW/cm²
CIE X	7470 µW/cm²
CIE Y	8220 µW/cm²
CIE Z	8610 µW/cm²
PAR	81200000 mol photons
Extinction preD3	110 e-3*m²/mol
Extinction Tachysterol	419 e-3*m²/mol
Exctincition PreD3	60900 m²/mol
Extinction Lumisterol	4.53 m²/mol
Exctincition Tachysterol	744000 m²/mol
Extinction 7DHC	1.92 m²/mol
L-Cone	7120 µW/cm²
M-Cone	8440 µW/cm²
S-Cone	7600 µW/cm²
U-Cone	4490 µW/cm²
UVR - ICNIRP 2004	1.38 Rel Biol Eff
Melatonin Supression	7100 µW/cm²
Blue Light Hazard	5250 µW/cm² (88.6 µW/cm² per 1000 lx)
CIE 174:2006 PreVit D3	9.69 µW/cm²
Lumen Reptil	63300 "pseudo-lx"
Vitamin D3 Degradation	22.7 µW/cm²
Actinic UV	1.39 µW/cm² (0.235 mW/klm)
Exctincition Lumisterol	10800 m²/mol
Exctincition 7DHC	3660 m²/mol
Exctincition Toxisterols	15400 m²/mol

Solarmeter 6.2 (UVB, pre 2010)	165 µW/cm²
Solarmeter 6.5 (UV-Index, pre 2010)	3.11
Leybold UVB	105 µW/cm²
Leybold UVA	1360 µW/cm²
Leybold UVC	6.4E-5 µW/cm²
DeltaOhm UVB	426 µW/cm²
DeltaOhm UVC	35.4 µW/cm²
Vernier UVB	24.9 µW/cm²
Vernier UVA	1180 µW/cm²
Gröbel UVA	1550 µW/cm²
Gröbel UVB	44.2 µW/cm²
Gröbel UVC	-0.0318 µW/cm²
Solarmeter 6.4 (D3)	9.71 IU/min
UVX-31	499 µW/cm²
IL UVB	0.0809 µW/cm²
IL UVA	1600 µW/cm²
Solarmeter 6.5 (UVI, post 2010)	2.8 UV-Index
Solarmeter 6.2 (UVB, post 2010)	125 µW/cm² (Solarmeter Ratio = 44.6)
Solarmeter AlGaN 6.5 UVI sensor	46 UV Index
GenUV 7.1 UV-Index	3.24 UV-Index
Solarmeter 10.0 (Global Power)	195 W/m²
Solarmeter 4.0 (UVA)	26.5 mW/cm²
LS122	0 W/m²
ISM400	116 W/m²