Testing the refurbished 30-inch Leuschner telescope and its exoplanet detection capabilities

The 30-inch Ritchey-Chretien telescope at Leuschner Observatory has recently been refurbished through a collaboration between San Francisco State University (SFSU) and UC Berkeley. The telescope is equipped with an SBIG STL-11000M CCD and is now being operated remotely from both campuses. We have carried out observations from SFSU to test the telescope's performance and to characterize the site in Lafayette, CA. We present the results of photometric calibrations in B, V and R filters carried out using Landolt standards, and of tests of the pointing and tracking accuracy of the refitted mount. We have also monitored the seeing at the site and measured the sky brightness in B, V and R filters. Finally, using observations of the open star cluster M34, we test the accuracy with which we can measure relative magnitudes, with the goal of using this telescope to detect exoplanet transits.