We have to thank all persons answering the following questionnaire, part of them three years before, other ones before or immediately after the IAU GA in Sydney, and the great majority each time.

We have to thank also Imants Platais, the new president of the Commission 8, for his support

We received answers, from:

Jean-Eudes Arlot, France, arlot@bdl.fr
William F. van Altena, USA, vanaltena@astro.yale.edu
Natalia Bazey, Ukraine, creator@sky.od.ua
Fernando Belizon, Spain, belizon@roa.es
Wim Brouw, Australia, Wim.Brouw@atnf.csiro.au
Christian Delmas, France, Christian.Delmas@obs-azur.fr
Christine Ducourant, France, ducourant@observ.u-bordeaux.fr
Dafydd Wyn Evans, UK, dwe@ast.cam.ac.uk
Martine Feissel-Vernier, France, feissel@ensg.ign.fr
Stephen Gauss, USA, fsg@sicon.usno.navy.mil
George Gontcharov, Russia, georgegontcharov@yahoo.com
Rustam Gumerov, Russia, Rustem.Gumerov@ksu.ru
Abdenour Irbah, Alger, irbah@unice.fr
Jin Wenjing, China, jwj@center.shao.ac.cn
Carlos E. López, Argentina, lopez2283@infovia.com.ar
Jose L. Muiños Haro, Spain, ppmu@roa.es
Fernando Noel, Chile, fnoel@das.uchile.cl
Wayne Osborn, USA, osborn@leon.phy.cmich.edu
Dan Pascu, USA, pas@gemini.usno.navy.mil
Ivan Pakvor, Yugoslavia, ipakvor@aob.aob.bg.ac.yu
Thierry Pauwels, Belgium, Thierry.Pauwels@oma.be
Gennady I. Pinigin, Ukraine, gp@gao.spb.ru
Antonio Pugliano, Italy, preside.scienze@uninav.it
Theodore Rafferty, USA, tjr@sicon.usno.navy.mil
Naufal Rizvanov, Russia, Naufal.Rizvanov@ksu.ru
Jane Russell, USA, jrussell@mail630.gsfc.nasa.gov
Manuel Sanchez, Spain, sanchez@roa.es
Walt Sanders, USA, wsanders@cruzio.com
Elena Schilbach, Germany, eschilbach@aip.de
Shen Kaixian, China, shenkx@ms.sxso.ac.cn
Thomas Schildknecht, Switzerland, thomas.schildknecht@aiub.unibe.ch
Zhenghong Tang, China, zhtang@center.shao.cnTongqi Xu Sheshan, China
Ramachrisna Teixeira, Brazil, rama@sider.net
Arthur Upgren, USA, aupgren@mail.wesleyan.eduMiguel Vallejo, Spain, vallejo@roa.es
Norbert Zacharias, USA, nz@usno.navy.mil
Gart Westerhout, USA, westerhout@compuserve.com

It is not possible to reproduce all replies; so, we have selected the following ones, which seemed to have a more general interest. So, you could find, near the old details, the new ones.
  

QUESTIONNAIRE

In order that this WG could be operative very quickly, we asked the members of the Commission 8 to support the effort of the working group, first by realizing a general viewing on the present situation of the instruments involved in astrometry or related observations.

The questions put were:

1. Do you have any telescopes (reflecting/refracting) at your observatory engaged in astrometry?
2. Would you describe it?

* Site characteristics (within the city, at a dark site, altitude)
* Telescope Type (refracting/reflecting)
* Year of construction
* Manufacturer (company or factory)
* Aperture
* Focal length/scale
* Limiting V magnitude
* Instrumentation: CCD camera (give its basic parameters), speckle camera, photographic camera, photomultiplier, coronagraph, etc.

Other two questions:

1. Have you free time at your telescope? Could you point us the available time and the conditions to use it?

2. Has your observatory the possibility to send people to work on another telescope?