J/AJ/142/2 Burrell-Optical-Kepler-Survey (BOKS). I. (Feldmeier+, 2011) ================================================================================ The Burrell-Optical-Kepler-Survey (BOKS). I. Survey description and initial results. Feldmeier J.J., Howell S.B., Sherry W., von Braun K., Everett M.E., Ciardi D.R., Harding P., Mihos J.C., Rudick C.S., Lee T.-H., Kutsko R.M., van Belle G.T. =2011AJ....142....2F ================================================================================ ADC_Keywords: Surveys ; Binaries, eclipsing ; Photometry, SDSS Keywords: binaries: eclipsing - planetary systems - techniques: photometric Abstract: We present the initial results of a 40 night contiguous ground-based campaign of time series photometric observations of a 1.39deg^2^ field located within the NASA Kepler Mission field of view. The goal of this pre-launch survey was to search for transiting extrasolar planets and to provide independent variability information of stellar sources. We have gathered a data set containing light curves of 54,687 stars from which we have created a statistical sub-sample of 13,786 stars between 14