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From apacheproject.altervista.org - November 20, 2011 10:38 AM

The Astronomical Observatory of the Autonomous Region of the Aosta Valley (OAVdA) and the INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Torino (INAF-OATo) in 2008 decided to implement and operate the APACHE Project (A Pathway toward the Characterization of Habitable Earths), the first-ever European network of small telescopes devoted to the search for exoplanets in transit around 3,000 bright low-mass stars (M dwarfs) in the solar neighbourhood.