Astrocalc 6.0 Overview.
As it's such a comprehensive program Astrocalc is divided into 6 editions building on each other,
allowing you to choose one in accordance with your current level of astrological knowledge or finacial capacity.
Then, as your knowledge grows you can move up to a bigger edition by paying only slightly more than the difference between
the old and the new one.
In order of content and complexity these editions are the Beginner, Basic, Synastry, Standard, Advanced
and Professional. Below you will find specifications for what all of these contains, then for details on each edition please visit the Astrocalc section of our web shop. Please notice, to conclude what the Basic Edition contains, apart from this overview you also have to read
the text for Beginners in the web shop, and so on for Synastry also Beginners and Basic etc. so finally for the Professional you have to read everything on these shop pages.
Each purchase of Astrocalc includes a 1 Year of free updates by download or CD*, no matter if version changes etc.
This upgrade protection can be renewed, if done within 30 days of expiration it's only 10% of full price (min. 5 GBP) otherwise 40%, on upgrade from one edition to another a new 1 year protection period automatically begins from the upgrade date without extra cost.
Please notice that upgrade prices from older versions prior to 6.0 is different and follow another schema.
* The CD can be ordered in the web shop for a nominal amount
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| Beginner Edition |
| Basic Edition |
Synastry Edition |
| Standard Edition |
Advanced Edition |
| Professional Edition |
Remarkably easy to use, with great
flexibility and the best looking chart wheels
| General Characteristics |
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| Atlas & Time Zone Corrections |
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All editions comes with a Full World Atlas and Time Zone corrections module covering over 200 000 places world wide.
The Atlas is editable allowing for addition of own places with cordinates for Latitude and Longitude. The Time zone data can not be edited but
added placed can make use of it.
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| 5000 Year Ephemeris |
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Accurately calculated positions for the period from BC 2500 to AD 2500
using directly calculated algorithms which obviates the need for very large,
pre-calculated disc ephemerides and allows calculations of Declinations and Latitudes.
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| Chart Wheel |
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All planets and points calculated by the program can be displayed in the chart
and you have the option of showing a planet/point but without any aspects to it.
Similar options exist for all lists whether on screen or printed. A unique feature
is the way that the planets take on the colours of the signs - this gives immense
clarity and readability to the chart - no problems determining the sign of a planet
on a sign cusp.
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| Chart Design |
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Many of the items shown in the chart wheel can be specified using the Chart Design and
other screens. This includes colours, symbols, the type and thickness of various lines,
the use of aspect indicators (these appear half-way along the aspect lines), the size of
symbols, etc. There are 2 main palettes available for use at the click of a button, one
using a black background (mainly for on-screen work where yellow is required) and one with
a white background for use with colour printers or when saving screens. Aspects and orbs
can all be defined, either by planet and routine (natal, progressions, etc.) as well as
the usual Astrocalc percentage method.
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| Printing |
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All printing is done via standard Windows printer drivers and gives you the very
highest resolution your printer is capable of. If you have a colour printer then output
can be in colour. All printouts can also be scaled, and if you have a wide carriage printer
capable of A3 or larger sizes then you can produce excellent large charts suitable for
class display. Undoubtedly the very best printed astrological wheels.
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| Data Entry |
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Although this is a typical Windows screen with all fields preset ready to accept
information using a combination of keyboard and mouse as appropriate, the automatic
tabbing system makes this a Rolls-Royce of a data entry system. In addition up to 12
charts can always be immediately available and their details are stored on exit from
the program allowing you to restart where you left off.
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| Help |
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Besides the usual Windows Help file in the form of a manual, we show a direct Help box at the bottom of
the screen. This is context sensitive, so that clicking on any field in any data entry
screen will immediately show the information without the need to search for it. |
| Three inbuilt methods of Interpretation |
The 3 in-built interpretation features (further explained on the Beginners page), give you a
version of our Remark Sorter program,
the Link Phrases method (and text) and the Block Text facilities
for Natal-, Transits Text etc. with
blank headed files (planets in signs, houses and aspects) - you can fill them in yourself.
In addition there is the Structure Analysis method from France and Ascara from Germany.
If you want the editable Natal Text files, which contain about 40,000 words covering
planets in signs, houses and aspects, these can be bought separately (already include in
the Professional). These can be used wherever a chart is calculated. You can also add the
Forecaster Text files for the Transits etc..
All techniques which produce a chart wheel can use all methods of interpretation
either as an on screen display or printout, directly from the chart wheel.
You can also do Transits Forecasts using either own text or our special
Forecast text files, and the same with Direct Synastry (Synastry Edition).
All text are fully editable in a separate text entry form, both in its base form
stored on disk and the produced interpretation as such. This also allows
selection of all the planet/points available to you in the program for
whatever technique that you want to use.
Text can also be readily copied to form the basis for different interpretation
techniques - thus you can copy the natal text to be used as the basis for
interpretation of progressions, harmonics, etc.
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| Utilities -
All programs have the following utility options:
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The ability to Print out the forms used by students of the Faculty of
Astrological Studies and the Mayo School of Astrology. These are
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Faculty 1) FormA. 2) FormB 3) Birth Chart No. 1 4) Chart No.3
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Mayo 1) FormA 2) FormB 3) Ecliptic Chart 4) Houses Chart. 5) No.3 Progressions
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Blank Chart forms in Flat chart/Equal House format.
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Using the currently select chart details you can find the Day of the Week,
Sunrise/Sunset, Moonrise/Moonset and, by entering a number from 1 to 360, the time
when the specified Ascendant is rising.
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A Symbols Lists option gives a screen which details all the symbols used by the
program, which can be printed out and given to students, whilst the
Rulerships/Exaltations screen similarly lists Rulerships, Exaltations, etc.
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The Arabic Parts option lists the Arabic Parts and gives you the opportunity to
create your own (for use by the program). For those with the Standard or larger
edition there are the following additional options.
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There are many other amendments and improvements in versions 6.0, such as a new and improved date entry form, larger screen wheels, more room for viewing the text editing, database backend etc. You can choose to have the Day or Night Part of Fortune or just the Day Part of Fortune. You can, if you wish, have Reversed Houses (going anti-clockwise) as per the Babylonians. You can determine the rounding of planet degrees, minutes and seconds - either up or down - within the chart wheel. Thus where you have a value of 29 deg 32 mins, it can either be shown as 29 deg or 30 deg. And so on.
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| Futher details on the Beginner, Basic, Synastry, Standard, Advanced and Professional Editions are
specified on separate pages available in the web shop.
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