The procedure that would allow you to make a spectrum of the Sun similar to the one shown, though with less detail, is: Pass a narrow beam of sunlight through a prism or diffraction grating to disperse the light into its component wavelengths and then observe or record the resulting spectrum. This method works by separating sunlight into its spectral colors, producing a spectrum that shows the intensity of light at different wavelengths. While professional instruments like spectrometers provide detailed solar spectra, this simpler optical method yields a solar spectrum with less detail but still reveals the main features such as the visible colors and some absorption lines. More specifically, instruments such as spectrometers with fiber optic inputs and cosine correctors can measure solar spectra with high accuracy, but a basic prism or diffraction grating setup can create a similar, though less detailed, solar spectrum
. In summary, to obtain a solar spectrum similar to a detailed one but with less detail, the key step is to disperse sunlight through a prism or diffraction grating and then analyze the resulting spectrum visually or with a simple detector.
