The refurbishment of the Asiago Schmidt Telescope

The RATS project sets itself to search for giant exo – planets with the photometric transit method, exploiting the 67/92 Schmidt Telescope at Mount Ekar in Asiago neighbourhoud. The telescope underwent on a refurbishment and automation phase. The automation phase is already going on. We describe the status of the first phase of the project (telescope refurbishment) and the telescope capabilty in transit hunt.