Spectroscope Kit

Students will get to see and appreciate the prismatic qualities of sunlight by using this 1" in diameter diffraction grating spectroscope.

White light can be separated into all of the colors of the spectrum by a prism or a diffraction grating. The spectroscope is a tubular instrument used to observe this color separation. It uses a diffraction grating with a narrow slit in the front through which light enters and is separated into the spectral colors. The diffraction grating is a plastic disk with 13,400 grooves per inch which breaks the light down into its color components.

Intricate and precise spectroscopes are used by astronomers and other scientists to investigate and chart the properties of stars and other glowing objects. The student spectroscope can be used to examine the properties of continuous and bright-line spectra from various sources of light. The investigation also contains a study of dark-line spectra.