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Old 09-02-2013, 10:32 PM
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Well, I'll answer my own question.

I rolled Stellarium forward to 09-02-2013 2030 EST and lo-and-behold, it put Lemon in a different location compared to Starry Night: similar RA but out by ~45' in Dec - Stellarium puts Lemon almost on top of HIP 112911, but Stu's chart from Starry Night puts it half way between HIP 112911 and Beta Octans.

Time and timezone are correct, so that's not it.
Hi, I took photos of the comet last night with a 300mm lens. I just compared the starfield in Stellarium to the same actual time of the photo and the position matches very closely with the surrounding stars.
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