Introduction. My brief history
The human activity of watching the sky
Asking why the planets move as they do
Exoplanets and completing the Copernican revolution
Stellar wobbles. At the telescope
Measuring precise radial velocities
Design considerations for a Doppler survey
Seeing the shadows of planets. Measuring and reading transit signals
Transit timing variations
Measuring the brightness of a star
Radial velocities first, transits second
Transit first, radial velocities second
From close in to further out
Planets bending space-time. The geometry of microlensing
The microlensing light curve
The microlensing signal of a planet
Directly imaging planets. The problem of angular resolution
The problem of chance alignment
Measuring the properties of an imaged planet
The future of planet hunting. Placing the solar system in context
Learning how planets form
Finding life outside the solar system
Giant planets as the tip of the iceberg
The future of the Doppler method : moving to dedicated instrumentation
The future of transit surveys
The future of microlensing
The future of direct imaging
