ultracam requirements




the capability of taking short exposures (from milli-seconds to seconds) with essentially no dead-time between exposures
multi-channels (3 or more) covering a wide wavelength range (u' to z') in order to distinguish a blackbody spectrum from a stellar spectrum
simultaneous measurement of the different wavelength bands to avoid problems of stochastic variations
imaging capability in order to simultaneously measure target, comparison stars and sky background and to avoid the need for fixed apertures
high efficiency and the capability of being mounted on large-aperture telescopes