Hi,
since this new forum is for spectroscopy also, I thought
I might share a great little project that I made with my 8y/o
boy ages ago
Here is a page I made about it.
http://mywebsite.bigpond.com/astrost...ectroscope.htm
You can make the cardboard one in about half an hour.
A good, clean sliver of a DVD can split the sodium lines
easily on a sodium vapour streetlight.
You can also improve them by making a better knife edge slit
with two stanley knife blades and adjusting the viewing angle
to select either 1st order or 2nd order spectra.
Steve