Here is a link to a paper by David Charbonneau et al.
"A super-Earth transiting a nearby low-mass star"
<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3229" rel="nofollow">http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3229</a>
It contains more details.<p>And here is a page about the MEarth project
<a href="http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~zberta/mearth/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~zberta/mearth/</a>
... it seems that some nocturnal animals also find the telescopes highly interesting ...