Online ephemeris question 1 by Martin Gansten Solar Fire (which I use out of habit), and no doubt other commercial astrology software, offers the option of creating highly customized ephemerides – such as, for instance, displaying the longitude, latitude, right ascension and declination of the moon at 1-minute intervals over a day or part of a day. That may sound eccentric, but is actually very useful for certain Placidean techniques that I teach as part of my Primary Directions Diploma Course. But these days, not all students own commercial software, which leads me to ask: does anyone here know of (preferably free) online resources that offer the same flexibility in producing ephemerides, e.g. in PDF format? https://astrology.martingansten.com/ Quote Tue Dec 13, 2022 8:31 pm
Re: Online ephemeris question 2 by Petr9 Martin Gansten wrote:Solar Fire (which I use out of habit), and no doubt other commercial astrology software, offers the option of creating highly customized ephemerides – such as, for instance, displaying the longitude, latitude, right ascension and declination of the moon at 1-minute intervals over a day or part of a day. That may sound eccentric, but is actually very useful for certain Placidean techniques that I teach as part of my Primary Directions Diploma Course. But these days, not all students own commercial software, which leads me to ask: does anyone here know of (preferably free) online resources that offer the same flexibility in producing ephemerides, e.g. in PDF format? Hello Martin Astrodienst Swiss Ephemeris - "Test Output" online tool allows it: Here is the quick link for today ephemeris (Moon - longitude, latitude, right ascension and declination - minute by minute): https://www.astro.com/cgi/swetest.cgi?b ... arg=-ut+-g (your students can bookmark that link - and just replace the current date 14.12.2022 by any other date) --- And here is the link to Astrodienst's form generator with some explanation: https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swetest.htm Result looks like this (Time UT/Planet/Long/Lat/RA/Decl) Code: Select all14.12.2022 0:00:00 UT Moon 145°38'34.7422 5° 1'50.0951 9h58'43.4608 17°42' 6.1340 14.12.2022 0:01:00 UT Moon 145°39' 4.5506 5° 1'49.4898 9h58'45.3967 17°41'55.3305 14.12.2022 0:02:00 UT Moon 145°39'34.3591 5° 1'48.8841 9h58'47.3327 17°41'44.5258 14.12.2022 0:03:00 UT Moon 145°40' 4.1677 5° 1'48.2780 9h58'49.2686 17°41'33.7198 14.12.2022 0:04:00 UT Moon 145°40'33.9766 5° 1'47.6715 9h58'51.2044 17°41'22.9125 14.12.2022 0:05:00 UT Moon 145°41' 3.7856 5° 1'47.0646 9h58'53.1402 17°41'12.1040 14.12.2022 0:06:00 UT Moon 145°41'33.5950 5° 1'46.4573 9h58'55.0759 17°41' 1.2940 14.12.2022 0:07:00 UT Moon 145°42' 3.4044 5° 1'45.8497 9h58'57.0116 17°40'50.4830 14.12.2022 0:08:00 UT Moon 145°42'33.2139 5° 1'45.2417 9h58'58.9472 17°40'39.6708 14.12.2022 0:09:00 UT Moon 145°43' 3.0235 5° 1'44.6333 9h59' 0.8827 17°40'28.8572 14.12.2022 0:10:00 UT Moon 145°43'32.8334 5° 1'44.0245 9h59' 2.8182 17°40'18.0425 14.12.2022 0:11:00 UT Moon 145°44' 2.6434 5° 1'43.4154 9h59' 4.7537 17°40' 7.2264 14.12.2022 0:12:00 UT Moon 145°44'32.4535 5° 1'42.8058 9h59' 6.6891 17°39'56.4091 14.12.2022 0:13:00 UT Moon 145°45' 2.2639 5° 1'42.1959 9h59' 8.6245 17°39'45.5906 14.12.2022 0:14:00 UT Moon 145°45'32.0747 5° 1'41.5855 9h59'10.5598 17°39'34.7707 14.12.2022 0:15:00 UT Moon 145°46' 1.8854 5° 1'40.9749 9h59'12.4950 17°39'23.9497 14.12.2022 0:16:00 UT Moon 145°46'31.6962 5° 1'40.3638 9h59'14.4302 17°39'13.1274 14.12.2022 0:17:00 UT Moon 145°47' 1.5072 5° 1'39.7523 9h59'16.3654 17°39' 2.3039 14.12.2022 0:18:00 UT Moon 145°47'31.3184 5° 1'39.1405 9h59'18.3004 17°38'51.4791 14.12.2022 0:19:00 UT Moon 145°48' 1.1298 5° 1'38.5283 9h59'20.2355 17°38'40.6531 14.12.2022 0:20:00 UT Moon 145°48'30.9413 5° 1'37.9157 9h59'22.1705 17°38'29.8258 14.12.2022 0:21:00 UT Moon 145°49' 0.7530 5° 1'37.3027 9h59'24.1054 17°38'18.9973 14.12.2022 0:22:00 UT Moon 145°49'30.5652 5° 1'36.6893 9h59'26.0403 17°38' 8.1673 14.12.2022 0:23:00 UT Moon 145°50' 0.3772 5° 1'36.0755 9h59'27.9751 17°37'57.3363 and switching "LBAD" to lowercase "lbad" will switch from °degrees to decimal values: Code: Select all14.12.2022 0:01:00 UT Moon 145.6429840 5.0305820 149.6810865 17.7017039 14.12.2022 0:01:00 UT Moon 145.6512640 5.0304138 149.6891531 17.6987029 14.12.2022 0:02:00 UT Moon 145.6595442 5.0302456 149.6972195 17.6957016 14.12.2022 0:03:00 UT Moon 145.6678244 5.0300772 149.7052856 17.6926999 14.12.2022 0:04:00 UT Moon 145.6761046 5.0299088 149.7133516 17.6896979 14.12.2022 0:05:00 UT Moon 145.6843849 5.0297402 149.7214173 17.6866955 14.12.2022 0:06:00 UT Moon 145.6926653 5.0295715 149.7294829 17.6836928 14.12.2022 0:07:00 UT Moon 145.7009457 5.0294027 149.7375482 17.6806897 14.12.2022 0:08:00 UT Moon 145.7092261 5.0292338 149.7456132 17.6776863 14.12.2022 0:09:00 UT Moon 145.7175065 5.0290648 149.7536781 17.6746826 14.12.2022 0:10:00 UT Moon 145.7257870 5.0288957 149.7617427 17.6716785 14.12.2022 0:11:00 UT Moon 145.7340676 5.0287265 149.7698071 17.6686740 14.12.2022 0:12:00 UT Moon 145.7423482 5.0285572 149.7778713 17.6656692 14.12.2022 0:13:00 UT Moon 145.7506289 5.0283877 149.7859353 17.6626641 14.12.2022 0:14:00 UT Moon 145.7589096 5.0282182 149.7939991 17.6596585 14.12.2022 0:15:00 UT Moon 145.7671904 5.0280486 149.8020626 17.6566527 14.12.2022 0:16:00 UT Moon 145.7754712 5.0278788 149.8101259 17.6536465 14.12.2022 0:17:00 UT Moon 145.7837520 5.0277090 149.8181890 17.6506400 14.12.2022 0:18:00 UT Moon 145.7920329 5.0275390 149.8262519 17.6476331 14.12.2022 0:19:00 UT Moon 145.8003138 5.0273690 149.8343145 17.6446259 14.12.2022 0:20:00 UT Moon 145.8085948 5.0271988 149.8423769 17.6416183 14.12.2022 0:21:00 UT Moon 145.8168758 5.0270285 149.8504392 17.6386104 14.12.2022 0:22:00 UT Moon 145.8251570 5.0268581 149.8585012 17.6356020 --- Here is the list of all possible parameters - you can use in "Output format -f" field https://www.astro.com/cgi/swetest.cgi?arg=-h&p=0 --- Quote Wed Dec 14, 2022 9:44 am
Re: Online ephemeris question 3 by Martin Gansten That's wonderfully helpful, Petr! Thanks so much! https://astrology.martingansten.com/ Quote Wed Dec 14, 2022 12:32 pm
Planetdance 4 by astralwanderer Hi Martin - Jean Cremer's Extended Ephemeris in Planetdance does most of this. The only missing variable is right ascension. I will ask him if he could include this in the listing (should be easy) and then your students might wish to download this software. Best wishes. Ed "...the motions that are akin to the divine in us are the thoughts and revolutions of the universe." Plato, Timaeus, 90. Quote Wed Dec 14, 2022 6:23 pm
Planetdance Update 5 by astralwanderer Hi Martin - Jean has updated Planetdance so that the Extended Ephemeris module (under the Time menu) now lists right ascension, longitude etc. The ephemeris can be run for a minimum step of one minute, so a student could run the ephemeris for a number of hours by choosing, say, 600 steps = 10 hours, or more, depending on the speed of their computer. The actual listing is quite speedy so this shouldn't be too much of a problem. The software can be downloaded from www.jcremers.com. All the best. Ed "...the motions that are akin to the divine in us are the thoughts and revolutions of the universe." Plato, Timaeus, 90. Quote Wed Dec 14, 2022 7:16 pm
6 by Jean Hello, I published an update for this: December 14 + Added Right Ascension to Time - Extended Ephemeris. It will also export to csv. [/img] Quote Wed Dec 14, 2022 7:16 pm
Thanks 7 by astralwanderer Hi Jean - great work - many thanks! Ed "...the motions that are akin to the divine in us are the thoughts and revolutions of the universe." Plato, Timaeus, 90. Quote Wed Dec 14, 2022 7:18 pm
Re: Thanks 8 by Martin Gansten Indeed, thanks very much, Ed and Jean! I'm very glad to see that these resources exist. https://astrology.martingansten.com/ Quote Wed Dec 14, 2022 8:36 pm
9 by Jean Habit or not, it won't hurt to take a look at planetdance Martin, you might be surprised., there are comprehensive classic, medieval, etc. sections Quote Thu Dec 15, 2022 4:39 pm
10 by Martin Gansten Thanks Jean, I will. https://astrology.martingansten.com/ Quote Thu Dec 15, 2022 4:55 pm
11 by james_m petr9 and jean do these programs work on ubuntu? i have probably asked this question before, but when i upgraded to ubuntu 22, i lost solar fire... i have it on the laptop, but i am looking for a program that i can run on ubuntu.... i am also especially interested in using the 90 degree wheel, and dasa data... thanks for any input on this... Quote Thu Dec 15, 2022 8:52 pm
12 by Omphalos There is also this option for generating the ephemeris data: http://www.true-node.com/eph1/ It find it has an easier to use interface than the Astrodienst (check boxes rather than command line switches, actual planet names), but also based on the Swiss Ephemeris. Cheers! OP Quote Fri Dec 16, 2022 3:14 am