"anonymous" wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 08:23:49 +0000 (UTC),
(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.