First light for GRAVITY Wide

GRAVITY+ is the upgrade of GRAVITY and Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) with wide-separation fringe tracking, new adaptive optics, laser guide stars on all four 8~m Unit Telescopes (UTs), for ever fainter, all-sky, high contrast, milliarcsecond interferometry. Here we present design first results phase GRAVITY+, called Wide. Wide combines dual-beam capabilities VLTI instrument to increase maximum separation between science target reference star from 2 arcseconds 8 m UTs up several 10 arcseconds, limited only by Earth's turbulent atmosphere. This increases sky-coverage two orders magnitude, opening resolution observations faint objects, in particular extragalactic sky. The 2019 - 2022 include infrared interferometry redshift $z\sim2$ quasars, interferometric imaging binary system HD 105913A, repeated multiple systems Orion Trapezium Cluster. We find coherence loss object fringe-tracking well described turbulence confirm that larger apertures result higher visibilities a given due overlap projected pupils sky give predictions visibility as function be used future planning.