From: spicedham@dualboot.net   
      
   "anonymous"  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 08:23:49 +0000 (UTC),   
   > mperrin+news@cymric.berkeley.edu (Marshall Perrin) wrote:   
   >   
   > >   
   > >Yes, absolutely. The trick is to look at a whole *lot* of stars at once -   
   > >like, say, a few hundred thousand or a couple million. That's not impossible   
   > >with a wide-field camera looking in the galactic plane.   
   > >   
   >   
   > Try this   
   [snip]   
      
   Kepler actually will observe around a quarter million stars   
   (it will have a huge imaging array, nearly 100 megapixels),   
   though only about 100,000 of those will be suitable for   
   detecting planetary transits.   
      
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