Rocky Planet Finder,[1] is a fully robotic 2.4-meter optical telescope at Lick Observatory, situated on the summit of Mount Hamilton, east of San Jose, California, USA.

[2] First light was originally scheduled for 2006, but delays in the construction of the major components of the telescope[5] pushed this back to August 2013.

[1] Early tests show that the performance of the Ken and Gloria Levy Doppler Spectrometer is meeting the design goals.

The spectrometer has high throughput and is meeting the design sensitivity of (1.0 m/s),[1] similar to the radial velocity precision of HARPS and HIRES.

This undertaking is performed for the heavily funded Breakthrough Listen project of the Berkeley SETI Research Center.