The COROT camera

This photo shows the wide-field camera on board the COROT satellite. The camera consists of two parts, one for each of the two mission objectives (exoplanet search and asteroseismology), and operates in the visible. Both mission goals require the camera to be sensitive to changes in a star's light of just one part in one hundred thousand.

During the mission, the COROT telescope will collect the light from thousands of stars and feed it into the camera.