Vik Dhillon, Mark Stevenson,
John Kelly, Richard Pashley
University of Sheffield
Tom Marsh
University of Southampton
David Atkinson, Derek Ives, Tully Peacocke,
Chris Tierney, Andy Vick
ULTRACAM is an ultra-fast, triple-beam CCD camera,
designed to study one of the few remaining unexplored regions of
observational parameter space - high
temporal resolution. Funded in full (£292 k) by PPARC in October
1999, it will see first light during February 2002 and will be used on
2-m, 4-m and 8-m class telescopes in Australia, Chile, Greece, La Palma and
South Africa to study astrophysics on the fastest timescales.