Fig. 1

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Definition of the abscissa residual v for a single-epoch position (am, δm), with respect to the nominal catalogue position (α0, δ0) and the RGC orientation θ. The actual position of the observed target lies somewhere along the dotted arrowed blue segment. The figure is based on one originally published by van Leeuwen & Evans (1998).
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