Abstract
An exact calculation is carried out for the charge form factor of 6Li using a wavefunction for the ground state which depends on the internal coordinates only and which contains a short-range correlation factor of the Jastrow type. A very good fit to the experimental data can be obtained by adjusting the parameters in the wavefunction. It is found that the optimum value of these parameters depends sensitively on the way the centre-of-mass coordinate is eliminated.