We show the astrometric potential of the Wide Field Imager at the focus of the MPI-ESO 2.2m Telescope. Currently, we are able to measure the position of a well-exposed star with a precision of ∼4 mas/frame in each coordinate (under 0.8 arcsec seeing conditions). We present some preliminary results here.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0503650,
title = {Star-Cluster Astrometry with Ground-Based Wide Field Imagers},
author = {L. R. Bedin and J. Anderson and G. Piotto and Y. Momany and R. S. Yadav},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0503650},
year = {2007}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures, from "Astrometry in the Age of the Next Generation of Large Telescopes", 18-20 October 2004, Flagstaff, ASP Conf. Ser. in press