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Originally Posted by Astro_Bot
Does anyone know if Stellarium's data is accurate?
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I can't comment on Stellarium, even though it is loaded on my machine. I find Starry Night easier to use. For what it's worth, I can vouch for Starry Night's accuracy in this case. Every clear night, I have relied on SN to find Lemmon in my light polluted urban location and it has been spot on.
Starry Night is not always right. It is not accurate when dealing with predicted positions for NEO Asteroid 2012 DA14. It goes against their own policy of not adding NEO's to their database, but this time they did and users who trust it will miss out on seeing this asteroid. It's the only time that Starry Night has been left wanting. Instead I am using the data from JPL for my location and have plotted it onto a paper star chart.