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I used SkySafari Plus on my Android phone to locate it from my Auckland CBD apartment last night. The sky was extremely light-polluted, as one would expect, and I could only see Aldebaran, Zaurak and the fuzz of Pleiades with the naked eye in that part of the sky. Luckily the comet wasn't too far from Zaurak so I was able to target that, then sweep the sky to the right and downwards with my 10" dob and 26mm eyepiece to locate it. It appeared as it does in some of the sketches I've seen online; a tiny point of light surrounded by a reasonably large fuzzy area. I had to check SkySafari to make sure I hadn't landed on a globular cluster in the area by accident...
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