Abstract
While astrophysics is a fascinating subject, it hardly lends itself to laboratory experiences accessible to undergraduate students. In this paper, we describe a feasible astrophysical laboratory experience in which the students are guided to take several stellar spectra, using a telescope, a spectrograph and a CCD camera, and perform a full data analysis using the equivalent widths method on some spectral lines. This allows them to derive stellar temperatures after a suitable calibration and fitting procedure. On average, the estimated star's temperatures agree with the known results within an error margin of 5–10% for cold stars, and 20–25% for hot stars.
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