I'm writing a little C program to output planetary positions in a particular format (audio, but don't worry, that's not the problem). I've gotten to the point...
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astropalaver
Sep 3, 2010 11:59 am
Brin, Without more information there isn't any way to discover the source of your error. If you showed how you called the function and what you expected,...
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Zodiaco
zodiac1428
Sep 3, 2010 12:54 pm
A question, how much are precise the Eris ephemeris when calculating century's ago...??? In my forum are investigating about the Mongol period, and there are...
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solar_wind_tripper
solar_wind_t...
Sep 3, 2010 8:28 pm
Understood. Here's the function that I'm calling to calculate planet positions: void CalcPlanets() { //variable declaration int iFuncResult, iConfigFlags,i; ...
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solar_wind_tripper
solar_wind_t...
Sep 3, 2010 8:28 pm
You're right! I thought that setting the the function to equatorial coordinates would get me a value between 0 and 360 degrees, whereas using longitude would...
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Ed Falis
efalis
Sep 3, 2010 8:36 pm
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:02:03 -0400, solar_wind_tripper <wass0036@...> ... Wrong coordinate system. These are equatorial; you want ecliptical for the usual...
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astropalaver
Sep 3, 2010 10:20 pm
Brin, Great! I see that you are using an int for : dCoordMinutes = ((dResultArray[0]-((double)iTotalDegrees))*60); casting that int to a double still won't...
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astropalaver
Sep 3, 2010 10:54 pm
Ooops, Sorry, I read it too quickly. Try using 60.0 instead of 60; your compiler might be doing something odd. You might try using fmod() if you need to...
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astropalaver
Sep 3, 2010 11:00 pm
Oh, and.. You do know that the minutes are decimal and should be converted to sexagesimal to express it as minutes? I still don't know what values you are...
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solar_wind_tripper
solar_wind_t...
Sep 4, 2010 11:03 am
After dropping the Equatorial flag, I added in a section to give me Sidereal time. I had to manually convert clock time to Local Mean Time (Minute 4 minutes...
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astropalaver
Sep 4, 2010 2:12 pm
Brin, Sorry about all my confusion yesterday; it was a 14 hour work day. But today I am even more confused by your reply. A valuable test would be to pick a...
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Ed Falis
efalis
Sep 4, 2010 2:27 pm
Also do not convert the standard time for the event to local mean time - convert it directly to UT using the time zone difference for input....
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solar_wind_tripper
solar_wind_t...
Sep 6, 2010 5:25 am
Finally, I have a match! I was using Eastern Standard Time. Once I added the extra five hours back in, and turned off the Topographic flag, my planets...
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kalyanaraman.venkatar...
kalyanaraman...
Sep 9, 2010 1:34 pm
Hi all, I am new to this group. I am trying to get some ephemeris data using swetest.exe. I am interested in calculating retrogade and sextile calculations....
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Thomas Mack
mack3457
Sep 9, 2010 2:34 pm
... There are no transit calculations implemented in swetest. Retrograde movement you will see from the speed of the planet. If it is less than 0, than the...
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kalyanaraman.venkatar...
kalyanaraman...
Sep 9, 2010 2:46 pm
Thomas, Thanks a lot for the info. Also is there any way we can calculate transit, can you please let me know if any software available that do this transit...
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Ed Falis
efalis
Sep 9, 2010 2:58 pm
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:46:49 -0400, kalyanaraman.venkataramani ... This should do it for you: http://www.configurationhunter.com/astrology-tools/aspects-hunter...
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Thomas Mack
mack3457
Sep 9, 2010 4:13 pm
... Yes, looks nice. And if you need the dates when a planet becomes retrograde or direct or a similar concept to swetest.exe, you can use the Java version of...
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ykt.only
Sep 10, 2010 1:59 am
Could you please advise, is it possible to use MS Excell and Swiss Ephemeris on Mac OS Leopard? I've used for many years my program in MS Excell on Windows XP,...
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kalyanaraman.venkatar...
kalyanaraman...
Sep 10, 2010 12:25 pm
Thomas, Ed, That was very helpful. Thanks a lot -kalyan...
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Juan M Puertas
juatman_2000
Sep 10, 2010 10:39 pm
Hello :-) Anyone work with FreePascal and Swiss Ephemeris library? It's easy to do this one? Now, I work only with Freepascal and swetest. Thank you :-) ...
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kalyanaraman.venkatar...
kalyanaraman...
Sep 11, 2010 2:29 pm
Hi thomas/ed I used swetest.exe to find the retrograde motion of planets and I got this output in this form, which I have attached here. How should should I...
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Thomas Mack
mack3457
Sep 13, 2010 6:00 am
Hello Kalyanamaranji, if speed is negative as on January 1,2,and 3 2009 in your output below, the planet is moving retrograde. When speed is zero, the planet...
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elevenelefants
Sep 14, 2010 11:40 am
Hi Alois, Dieter, I looked into swe_fixstar(), swe_fixstar_mag() source code and got stunned. Is it really true that _every_ time an information about fixed...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Sep 14, 2010 12:02 pm
You see this correctly, Dmitry. We did not invest much time. Fixed stars were not in the focus of our interest, when we developed SE. They were just patched on...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Sep 14, 2010 12:07 pm
PS: the file fixstar.cat contains this comment # To achieve higher speed for swe_fixstar(), you can copy the # stars you prefer to the top of the list If your...
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Thomas Mack
mack3457
Sep 14, 2010 12:25 pm
In the Java version, I implemented an option to preload fixstars.cat into a hash, so multiple calls to swe_fixstars() et.al. won't look up the fixstar on disk...
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Dmitry Leonov
elevenelefants
Sep 14, 2010 2:30 pm
Hi Alois, Thank you for answering. I think I should contribute in this. But please clarify it a bit more for me first. AFAICS if one were able to obtain the...
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Alois Treindl
aloisya2000
Sep 14, 2010 3:29 pm
Dmitry just some wuick thoughts - I have no time to work on the issue. reading the whole fixstar file and store all of it into an effecient internal structure...
