A method images an object (4) by means of a wide field optic onto a position resolving detector (6) for optical radiation with suppression of stray light. In this method, the object (4) is illuminated in at least one object plane (3) with at least two illumination patterns (26, 27) and corresponding images are detected for each of the illumination patterns (26, 27). The illumination patterns (26, 27) each have bright regions (26; 33; 37) and dark regions (27) in the object plane (3). When there is a superposition of the illumination patterns (26, 27) in the optic plane (3), the object (4) is completely covered. A dark image of the object is determined from the detected images. A bright image of the object (4) is generated and the dark image is subtracted from the bright image.