The apparent magnitude of this star is 11.41, which means it is not visible to the naked eye but can be seen with a medium-sized amateur telescope on a clear dark night.

[2] Though TrES-2b is currently the darkest known exoplanet, reflecting less than 1 percent of local sunlight, it shows a faint red glow.

[9] In 2008 a study was undertaken of fourteen stars with exoplanets that were originally discovered using the transit method through relatively small telescopes.

This discovery resulted in a significant recalculation of parameters for both the planet and the primary star.

This spacecraft was a dedicated mission to discover extrasolar planets by the transit method from solar orbit.