Early Results from the Rosat Wide Field Camera

We present early results from observations made by the UK’s imaging EUV telescope, the Wide Field Camera (WFC). This telescope is being flown aboard the West German satellite ROSAT. In conjunction with a large X-ray telescope, built by the West Germans, the WFC is conducting a survey of the whole sky. This is the first in the EUV waveband. Afterwards ROSAT will be devoted to pointed observations of specific objects. We use results from the earliest phases of the ROSAT mission to highlight the importance of WFC observations for the study of white dwarfs and related objects such as the central stars of planetary nebulae.