  The STARE instrument is a small aperture, wide-field, CCD-based telescope
that delivers high cadence time series photometry on roughly 40,000 stars in a
typical field centered on the galactic plane. In a two-month observing run on a
field, we obtain sufficient precision on roughly 4,000 stars to detect a
close-in Jupiter-sized companion in an edge-on orbit. We also used this
instrument to detect the planetary transits across the Sun-like star HD209458.
The project is now in its third season, and we have acquired a large dataset on
several fields. Given the frequency of close-in extrasolar planets found by the
radial velocity surveys, and the recent confirmation that at least some of
these are indeed gas giants, the STARE project should be able to detect roughly
a dozen Jupiter-sized planets in its existing dataset.
