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The MEarth Project (MEarth) is an automated survey monitoring nearby red dwarves for transients, designed to spot transiting planets. Observations are carried out at two sites: MEarth-North, at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Mt. Hopkins, Arizona, and MEarth-South, at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, in Chile. Each uses eight off-the shelf telescopes and cameras.