article_snippet.sent: The Automated Planet Finder (APF) consists of a 2.4-metre automated telescope and enclosure, and a high-resolution spectrograph. 
article_snippet.sent: The Automated Planet Finder (APF) consists of a 2.4-metre automated telescope and enclosure, and a high-resolution spectrograph.
article_snippet.sent: a 2.4-metre automated telescope and enclosure, and a high-resolution spectrograph operate robotically every night and  target a preprogrammed list of nearby stars.
article_snippet.sent: APF observes them every night for months, in search of rocky planets with very low masses, similar to Earth. 
article_snippet.sent: But unlike other telescope, the new APF facility offers a way to speed up the planet search as the new APF facility robotically searches for planets every clear night.
article_snippet.sent: the University of California Observatories staff team initially used APF like The Kepler Space Telescope, staying up all night searching star to star,' said University of Hawaii graduate student BJ Fulton. '