A planet or whatever else that is moving retrograde has a negative rate of change (in longitude). Thus a negative number for (longitudinal) speed. The swewin32...
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silvina_berardi
Jan 3, 2005 5:07 pm
Hi! Tnx everybody for the help. I read the documentation but I cannot find how to save swetest.exe output to text or excel. I read the documentation and I...
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Rico Jansen
v_ger
Jan 3, 2005 5:18 pm
There's not really any specific option to do that. But I simply selected the text in the window and copy/pasted to my email window. You're welcome, Rico ... --...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Jan 3, 2005 5:21 pm
... try swetest -h and read: -gPPP use PPP as gap between output columns; default is a single blank. -g followed by white space sets the gap to the TAB...
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Allen
a_edwall1
Jan 3, 2005 5:27 pm
Create a batch file and use DOS to send output to a file: example: swetest -b01.01.1950 -ut -n10 -fZl -speed -head -roundsec -pp -g, -head > sun.txt The ">...
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Jonathan Dunn
jonathanclar...
Jan 4, 2005 4:22 am
Hello Rico, There are two conceptions of an "orbit" 1) a great plane on the celestial sphere (in which all significant points are at dimensionless unit...
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Silvina Karina Berardi
silvina_berardi
Jan 4, 2005 7:31 am
... try swetest -h and read: -gPPP use PPP as gap between output columns; default is a single blank. -g followed by white space sets the gap to the TAB...
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Rico Jansen
v_ger
Jan 4, 2005 4:11 pm
Ok jon, I noticed that it's distance was on par with the moon distance, after I send off the mail. Then I figured it must have been the intersection of ...
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guru_paadam
Jan 8, 2005 10:22 pm
Dear Friends, I am working on a personal research reqires me to compute planetery positions for olders days. I am using swewin32.exe (in swewin32.zip) for the...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Jan 8, 2005 10:29 pm
... Dear Guru that date was under the rule of pope Gregor VIII. Maybe you read up a bit on your history of the catholic church, to get the thing about jumps in...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Jan 8, 2005 10:30 pm
Sorry, mistyped. Gregor XIII - seems a favourite pope name....
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Orgyen Rangdrol
orgyenrangdrol
Jan 8, 2005 10:33 pm
This is because of the correction to the Gregorian calendar which occurred on that date, as explained here: http://www.24hourtranslations.co.uk/dates.htm ...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Jan 8, 2005 10:40 pm
... By the way, it is NOT swiss ephemeris which played you a trick. Swiss ephemeris positions functions want a julian day number as input, not a calendar date....
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guru_paadam
Jan 9, 2005 8:57 am
Thank you Dr.Alois and Mr. Orgyen for your help. ... planetery ... swewin32.zip) ... help. ... 1582", ... input, ... it ... between ... julian ... the ... ...
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Rüdiger Plantiko
d022902
Jan 9, 2005 10:45 pm
Hi all, I have started documenting my Java classes based on Swiss Ephemeris and its Java port of Thomas Mack, this might be interesting for some of you. The...
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astro_bod
Jan 10, 2005 11:58 am
The position of the planets is correct but there is always a notable difference when houses position are beeing calculated. I think the problem comes from when...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Jan 10, 2005 12:08 pm
... You MUST use jul_day_UT for swe_houses()...
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astro_bod
Jan 10, 2005 3:42 pm
... Thanks, I know and I tried that before and once again with only _jul_day_UT but the result ends up with a difference even larger than when _jul_day_ET is...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Jan 10, 2005 3:48 pm
... You never said a difference to WHAT! Most likely you have a timezone problem. Swiss Ephemeris does not magically provide timezones. You need to know the...
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ludiskr
Jan 13, 2005 10:08 pm
Hi, I keep getting incorrect house cusps from swetest, the time is converted to GMT (i.e. deduct x hours to get the correct time). The cusps are close, off...
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Bernhard Bergbauer
sterndeuter_b
Jan 14, 2005 8:25 am
Please let us know what house system You have specified in the swe_houses function and what house system You are comparing it to! Where did You get the...
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Srdjan Krajnalic
ludiskr
Jan 14, 2005 9:38 am
Hi Bernhard, please try the following command here: http://www.astro.com/swisseph/swetest.htm swetest -b2.3.1978 -house44.84,22.50,r -ut11:45 -p -fPZ this is...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Jan 14, 2005 9:57 am
... I am not sure you are qualified to use a tool like swetest. It is used by you like a knife held at the wrong end and trying to cut. You confuse longitude...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Jan 14, 2005 10:20 am
... This is of course very much wrong. In the call to swetest you use '22.50' where you need to use '20.50' and, as said before, you confuse longitude and...
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Srdjan Krajnalic
ludiskr
Jan 14, 2005 12:09 pm
thank you so much, you just solved my problem. i was aware that long/lat were switched but for some reason never thought i had it wrong. thanks again! srdjan ...
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Srdjan Krajnalic
ludiskr
Jan 19, 2005 2:38 pm
Hi, this one has me stumped: swetest -b2.3.1978 -p2 -head -roundsec -g, -fLZ 343°34'58",13 pi 34'58" same is produced by ...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Jan 19, 2005 2:41 pm
... you do not say what data you enter into 'most astrology software' so what do you people expect to answer?...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Jan 19, 2005 2:46 pm
... The reason is that you compute for different times. Into 'most astrology software' you enter apparently 10.45 UT 2 March 1978 (as far as I can see from the...
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Srdjan Krajnalic
ludiskr
Jan 19, 2005 2:49 pm
Was hoping they would assume the same data, meaning March 2 1978 Hour and minute are not important for planet ephemeris, are they? ... From: Alois Treindl...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Jan 19, 2005 2:51 pm
... At least not in Belgrade. There the planets jump at midnight from one place to the next, like clocks at railway stations at the full minute....
