Hi, Denise: Here's a swiss cheese interleaved with GO-10432. Let's hope that guide stars come through. cheers! fritz ----- Submission 1 (Thu May 12 01:09:19 GMT 2005) ----- We propose to carry out astrometry with the FGS to obtain accurate and precise distances to four nearby planetary nebulae. In 1992, Cahn et al. noted that ``The distances to Galactic planetary nebulae remain a serious, if not THE most serious, problem in the field, despite decades of study.'' Twelve years later, the same statement still applies. Because the distances to planetary nebulae are so uncertain, our understanding of their masses, luminosities, scale height, birth rate, and evolutionary state is severely limited. To help remedy this problem, HST astrometry can guarantee parallaxes with half the error of any other available approach. These data, when combined with parallax measurements from the USNO, will improve distance measurements by more than a factor of two, producing more accurate distances with uncertainties that are of the order of ~6%. Lastly, most planetary nebula distance scales in the literature are statistical. They require several anchor points of known distance in order to calibrate their zero point. Our program will provide "gold standard" anchor points by the end of 2006, a decade before any anticipated results from future space astrometry missions.

We will obtain fringe tracking and fringe scanning observations of the central stars of four planetary nebulae. We will obtain fringe tracking observations of five reference stars within each field. 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