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** VERSION 7.50 **
Release notes for Astrolog version 7.50 (September 2022):
This file describes the freeware astrology software program Astrolog version 7.50 and the additions and fixes made to it, over the previous version 7.40 which was released over five months ago in March 2022. The main things in this update are dial charts, North and South Indian charts, traditional sign divisions, and extended wheel charts with planetary moons orbiting planets.
Here are new additions to version 7.50 that weren't in previous versions:
1. Dial midpoint wheels: Astrolog supports dial wheel charts with midpoint trees, as used in Uranian astrology. To display it, bring up Astrolog’s midpoint chart with graphics mode on (using the “Chart / Midpoint List” menu command, or with the -m -X command switches). The dial used is based on the harmonic chart factor setting, in which a harmonic factor of 1 is a 360 degree dial, 2 is a 180 degree dial, 3 is a 120 degree dial, 4 is a 90 degree dial, and so on. Dials may also be specified in number of degrees covered, in which the “harmonic chart factor” field in the Calculation Settings dialog, and the parameter to the -x switch on the command line, may have the prefix “d” to indicate a dial degree instead of a harmonic chart factor. For example, entering “4” or “d90” will both do a 90 degree dial. As with other charts, one can right mouse click on it in the Windows version to view a context menu, allowing one to toggle relevant settings.
The dial chart will have a red arrow crossing the wheel pointing to the focus planet or degree, and it can be interactively moved by pressing the left and right arrow keys, or by clicking and dragging the right mouse button. The “telescope focuses on this object” field in the Graphics Settings dialog (which is also the parameter to the -XZ switch) will indicate the object for the dial to focus upon. If that field is empty and not set to a planet, then the dial will point to the degree indicated in the “horizontal map degree rotation” field in Graphics Settings (which is also the parameter to the -XW switch).
The dial will also draw lines between planets which have the focus point as their midpoint. These lines will use the orb of the Conjunction aspect to determine how wide to allow lines. The middle of the chart will list these midpoints, showing the two objects forming the midpoint, the angle in dial degrees between them, and the orb or how offset the midpoint is from exact. This midpoint list can be sorted in several different ways, based on the “sort aspect list by” field in the Chart Settings dialog (which is also set by the -a subswitch). Specifically, you can sort by aspect i.e. angle (the default), by orb, or by object index. Note that the “3D aspects” setting will apply to these midpoints, and if enabled will calculate 3D midpoints based on great circles that take ecliptic latitude into account, instead of just midpoints based on zodiac position only. If the “Show Equator” setting is on (-Xe switch) then instead of a dial and midpoint tree, standard aspects between points around the wheel will be drawn.
2. North/South Indian style wheels: Astrolog can display North Indian and South Indian style wheel charts, as used in Indian astrology. To display them, use the new “Graphics / Indian Style Wheels” menu command (or the new -XJ switch on the command line). This setting will modify the standard wheel chart (“Chart / Standard Radix” menu command, or the -v -X switch combination) and the house wheel chart (“Chart / House Wheel” command, or the -w -X switch combination) to draw Indian wheels instead of Western. Planets in sign or house areas will be labeled with their glyphs, although if the “show glyph labels” setting (-Xl switch) is off, then planets will instead be labeled with their two letter abbreviation as is commonly done with Indian charts. Glyphs or abbreviations will be arranged in position order within a sign/house, from top to bottom or from left to right. If the “text house wheel reverses object order” setting is on (-w0 switch) then glyphs will instead be arranged in reverse order in parts of the wheel that progress from bottom to top or from right to left. As with other charts, one can right mouse click on it in the Windows version to view a context menu, allowing one to toggle relevant settings, and easily switch between Western and North/South Indian charts.
South Indian: The South Indian chart consists of 12 boxes (one for each sign) arranged around a square. In this chart, Pisces is the upper left box, and signs increase clockwise (which is the opposite direction of standard Western wheel charts). Each box will be labeled with its sign, and if the house system is one in which house boundaries exactly coincide with signs (such as Whole or Null) then each box will be labeled with its house too. Either way, the sign containing the 1st house cusp will be highlighted with two diagonal lines, to make it more visible. If the “Indian wheel order” setting (-J switch) is on then arrangement will instead be similar to a Western wheel, with the sign containing the first house on the left edge, and signs increasing counterclockwise. The square space in the middle of the chart will have an aspect/midpoint grid drawn within it, for as many planets as there’s room for, unless the “show equator” setting is on (-Xe switch). Because South Indian chart boxes are signs, this chart is displayed with the standard “Chart / Standard Radix” command, when “Indian Style Wheels” are on.
North Indian: The North Indian chart consists of 12 diamond or triangle shaped areas (one for each house) arranged to compose a square. Angular houses will be in the larger diamond shaped areas near the middle. Each box will be labeled with its house, and if the house system is one in which house boundaries exactly coincide with signs (such as Whole or Null) then each box will be labeled with its sign too. In this chart, the 1st house is the top diamond, and signs increase counterclockwise. If the “Indian wheel order” setting is on (-J switch) then arrangement will be more similar to a Western wheel, with the chart being rotated 90 degrees so that the first house is the diamond on the left edge. Because North Indian chart boxes are houses, this chart is displayed with the “Chart / House Wheel” command, when “Indian Style Wheels” are on.
3. Traditional wheel chart divisions: Astrolog can divide the signs of the zodiac in various ways as used in traditional or Indian astrology, and display these subsections around graphic wheel charts, and in text listings. The new “Wheel Sign Subdivision Type” dropdown in the Chart Settings dialog (which is also accessible via a new optional numeric parameter to the -v3 switch) indicates the type of sign subdivision to display. This dropdown replaces the old “Standard Radix Chart Shows Decan Positions” checkbox in the dialog, which was limited to only displaying one type of division. In graphic wheel charts, the sign wheel will be subdivided appropriately, with each section labeled with a sign, planet, or number. In the standard text mode chart, the rightmost column will (as long as the “Print Nearest Second” setting or -b0 switch is on) display the placement of each planet within the selected division type. Note the ~v3 switch AstroExpression can be used to modify these divisions (i.e. how each section is sized and labeled) or create completely new ones. The nine sign subdivision types are:
1) Decan Ruler: Each sign is trisected into three equal 10 degree sections, showing traditional decans or faces. Each decan is labeled with the planet that rules (based on rulership settings) the sign associated with that third of the original sign. This sign subdivision was the only option available in previous versions of Astrolog.
2) Decan Sign: This option marks decans or faces with the signs themselves, as opposed to the planets which rule those signs. This sign subdivision could be done in previous versions of Astrolog by setting the ~v3 switch AstroExpression appropriately, for which an example was given in the documentation for the ~v3 switch.
3) Chaldean Decan: Decans or faces are marked using the Chaldean method, by repeating the seven visible planets around the zodiac. This sign subdivision could be done in previous version of Astrolog by setting the ~v3 switch AstroExpression appropriately, for which an example was given in the documentation for the ~v3 switch.
4) Egyptian Term: Each sign is subdivided into five unequal sized areas between 2 and 12 degrees, each of which is associated with one of the five planets from Mercury through Saturn, as indicated by Egyptian terms or bounds.
5) Ptolemaic Term: Each sign is subdivided into five unequal sized areas between 3 and 8 degrees, each of which is associated with one of the five planets from Mercury through Saturn, as indicated by Ptolemaic terms or bounds. Other term arrangements can be configured with the ~v3 switch AstroExpression, in which the documentation for that switch gives an example to show Chaldean terms.
6) Navamsa: Each sign is subdivided into nine equal areas of 3:20 degrees each, as defined in Indian astrology Navamsas. Each section is labeled with a sign of the zodiac, and these zodiac signs increase around the wheel. That makes it equivalent to the 9th harmonic chart, in which each planet will be in a section labeled with the sign it would move to if the harmonic chart factor were set to 9.
7) 12th Harmonic: Each sign is divided into 12 equal 2.5 degree sections, based on the 12th harmonic in which the first section of each sign is associated with Aries, the second Taurus, and so on.
8) Dwad: Also called dwadasamsa or dodecatemoria, the dwad division is similar to the 12th harmonic division above, except each sign labels sections starting with its own sign, instead of Aries.
9) Nakshatra: This shows the Nakshatra division used in Vedic astrology. The wheel of the zodiac is divided into 27 equal sized areas of 13:30 degrees each, and each section is labeled with the number 1-27. Since nine of the Nakshatras overlap sign boundaries, both halves of them will be labeled with that number. The text mode version of this division will not only list the Nakshatra number, but also a four letter abbreviation of the lunar mansion name, like as done when the “Display Format” setting is set to “27 Nakshatras” (-sn switch).
4. Planetary moon wheels: Astrolog offers a new wheel chart variation which shows planetary moons orbiting planets. The wheel chart will be displayed as normal, except unrestricted planetary moon objects will be drawn around the glyph of the planet they orbit. Since each planet is now a mini-wheel chart, this is effectively a “wheels within wheels” chart. To show this, turn on the new “Wheel Charts Show Moons Orbiting Planet” checkbox in the Planetary Moon Object Settings dialog, or use the new -X8 switch. Moons will be displayed using their first letter, or as a lower case version of the first letter, if the letter is already in use by an earlier indexed moon of that planet. For example, Saturn’s moon Titan will be displayed as “T”, while Saturn’s moon Tethys will be “t”. Moon letters will be placed relative to their orientation to the viewer, and will be highlighted based on which of the four prominence zones they’re in. (These moon prominence zones are somewhat analogous to the four Gauquelin sector plus zones.) Moons which are leading the planet in its orbit will be highlighted in red, moons which are following the planet in its orbit will be in green, moons which are close or between the planet and the viewer will be yellow, moons which are distant or behind the planet will be blue, and moons not in any zone will be gray. Moon letters will be distributed around the planet glyph such that letters don’t overlap, similar to how planet glyphs don’t overlap in the main wheel.
5. Atmospheric refraction: Astrolog now supports taking into account atmospheric refraction in local horizon positions, which will affect the apparent altitude of objects. To enable this, turn on the new “Local Horizon Positions Apply Atmospheric Refraction” checkbox in the Calculation Settings dialog, or use the new -Yf switch. Refraction is influenced by temperature (in which colder temperatures cause denser atmosphere and more refraction), by elevation above sea level (in which higher elevations have thinner atmosphere and less refraction), and by initial altitude (in which objects nearer the horizon pass through more atmosphere and are offset more). In a cold environment at sea level, objects near the horizon can be offset by over half a degree in altitude due to refraction. The temperature to use for a chart is specified in the Default Chart Info dialog, or with the new -zf switch. Temperature can be specified in degrees Celsius (the default or by including a “C” suffix), or in degrees Fahrenheit (by including an “F” suffix). Atmospheric refraction when enabled will affect Astrolog’s local horizon chart, its Gauquelin sector chart which is based on local horizon positions, it’s rising and setting charts, chart spheres, and the placement of planets in 3D houses when arranged along the prime vertical.
6. Node crossing events: Astrolog’s transit to transit times chart (-d switch) now has the ability to detect events where the latitude of a planet crosses zero (i.e. crosses a nodal point). Enable these events with the new “Latitude Zero Crossing” checkbox in the Transits dialog, or on the command line with the new -YR2 switch, which takes two parameters the first of which indicates the restriction status of north and south node crossings. These events will be displayed in charts as “LA0 North” and “LA0 South”. The North Node is where an object crosses a plane from negative to positive altitude, while the South Node is where it crosses a plane from positive to negative altitude.
7. Equal distance events: Astrolog’s transit to transit times chart (-d switch) and transit to natal times chart (-t switch) now have the ability to detect events where two planets are of equal distance from the observer. Enable this event with the new “Distances Equal” checkbox in the Transits dialog, or on the command line with the new -YR2 switch, which takes two parameters the second of which indicates the restriction status of equidistant events. This event will be displayed as “EqD” in charts. This effectively introduces a new aspect type along the distance axis, similar to how standard aspects measure alignment along the horizontal or longitude axis, and how parallel and contraparallel aspects measure alignment along the vertical axis. Note that some planet pairs will never be equidistant from each other, such as outer planets (which are always far away) with inner planets (which are always relatively close).
8. Custom glyph copying: The new -YXDD subswitch will copy a graphic glyph from one object to another. It takes two parameters, one for the object index to change, and another for the object index to copy the glyph from. This switch allows one to have a custom object slot be a copy of a planet, without having to manually recreate the planet’s glyph in the new slot.
9. Output extra text: The obscure new -YYt switch will output the specified text. It can be used to append text to a text mode chart, or even work within an AstroExpression hook, if one calls the “Switch” AstroExpression function to execute a command line containing the switch. In the switch’s string parameter, the character sequence “\n” will be translated to a newline, and character sequences like “\A” will be translated to the contents of custom AstroExpression variable @a. This switch will do nothing when the program is in graphics mode.
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Here's a summary of the 8 new command switches in Astrolog 7.50 that weren't in previous versions:
-v3 [0-8]: Display decan or other information alongside positions.
-zf <temp>: Change default temperature for atmospheric refraction.
-Yf: Local horizon positions affected by atmospheric refraction.
-YR2 <flag1> <flag2>: Set
restrictions for node, equidistant events.
-XJ: Display wheel charts in South or North Indian form.
-X8: Display planetary moons around planets in wheel charts.
-YXDD <obj> <from>: Copy glyph to one object from another.
-YYt <text>: Output formatted text string in current context.
Here's a summary of the one new menu command in the Windows version of Astrolog 7.50 that wasn’t in previous versions:
Graphics / Indian Style Wheels
A list of improvements to existing features in Astrolog 7.50, such as new things you can now do with old features that you couldn’t do before, or ways that existing features work better than before:
1. Waxing/waning in more charts: When the aspect orb type is set to waxing/waning (-gx switch), certain charts that display exact times of aspects will include whether the aspect is waxing/waning next to them. The transit to transit times chart (-d switch), and the transit to natal times chart (-t switch), will label waxing aspects with “x” and waning with “n”. Similarly, the graphic calendar (-K -X switches) will label aspects with “wax” or “wan” if there’s enough room to the left of the time in the calendar boxes. Note that exact Conjunction and Opposition aspects are never waxing or waning, so won’t be labeled as either.
2. Extended eclipse detection: Eclipse detection (-Yu switch) has been extended to consider oppositions other than Sun/Moon as eclipses or occultations too. Any opposition will be flagged as an eclipse if the central body appears to overlap one body when viewed from the vantage point of the other body.
3. Transiting latitude crossings: Astro-graph chart latitude crossings when in transit to natal comparison chart mode (-L0 -rt switches) will now look at transit restrictions when deciding what objects to include. For example, if only the Sun is enabled in transit restrictions, and only the Moon is enabled in standard restrictions, then only transiting Sun crossing natal Moon lines will be displayed.
4. See all chart slot data: In the Windows version, the “Charts #3 Through #6” dialog will now display the chart information for all six chart slots in the dialog, to the right of the buttons that allow one to open a file into or manually set these chart slots. This makes it easy to see the contents of all chart slots together without having to bring up a hexa-wheel.
5. Progression rates labeled: In the Windows version, the Progressions dialog now labels the dropdown numbers in the Degrees Per Day and Cusp Move Ratio fields. This makes it easier to see how to select certain progression rates, such as Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.
6. Signs labeled on map chart: In the graphic world map chart, when sign boundary lines are being drawn upon the map (-XC switch), those areas will now also be labeled with the appropriate sign glyphs.
7. Detailed planet wireframes: When exporting the graphic solar system orbit chart to wireframe file format, when a planet is sufficiently zoomed in upon, it will be drawn as a full sphere instead of just a small octahedron. When this is the case, Saturn and Uranus will also be drawn with their rings, rotated and tilted at the proper angle. This makes the solar system orbit chart similar to a 3D model of Astrolog’s telescope chart.
8. Window resize memory: Astrolog will remember the most recent user selected window size. When switching from a chart type that has a fixed size to a chart type that can be of any size, that user selected size will be restored. This improved behavior can be seen in the X Windows version, and in windows produced by the command line Windows version (#define WINCLI enabled). It can also be seen in the standard Windows version when the Chart Resizes Window and Window Resizes Chart settings are both enabled.
9. Now charts for other slots: The -n switch to set the chart to the current moment now, may now also be invoked with subswitches to set other chart slots. For example, -n2 will set chart slot #2 to the current moment now.
10. Swiss Ephemeris updated: Astrolog now uses Swiss Ephemeris version 2.10.03, which includes updated Delta-T data along with other adjustments and improvements.
11. TZ database updated: Astrolog’s time zone change information has been updated to use TZ database version “2022c” (instead of “2022a” which was used before). This new version has a few subtle corrections and improvements to various areas in the world.
A few changes that aren't new feature additions or bug fixes have been made to Astrolog 7.50, which means certain old assumptions are no longer valid. Most can be considered improvements, but they still change existing behavior. A list of these follows (which aren't useful to be aware of unless you have used previous versions of the program):
1. Display decan interface: In the Windows version, the “Standard Radix Chart Shows Decan Positions” checkbox in the Chart Settings dialog has been removed. It’s been replaced with the new “Wheel Sign Subdivision Type” dropdown, which allows selecting decans as well as other types of division around wheel charts.
2. Moons chart adjustment: The graphic planetary moons chart (-8 -X switches) now displays top down moon positions in the bottom half of the chart relative to the central planet (i.e. potentially taking into account light travel time to the viewing position). Before, the top down moon positions would always be calculated relative to the planet the moons orbit, which would only imperceptibly change when switching between apparent and true positions, since moons are only a few light seconds away from their planet. This change makes the front and top down views consistent with each other. Similarly, the text mode planetary moons chart (-8 switch) will consider moon positions relative to the viewing position, when calculating whether they’re in the lead/follow/close/distant quadrants. If one prefers the old behavior, it can be reproduced by turning on the true positions setting.
3: Now command context: The Windows “Chart for now” command (-n switch) will now set the second or transiting chart slot to the current moment, when in a relationship comparison bi-wheel mode.
Here are bugs or other issues with version 7.40, all of which have been corrected in 7.50:
1. Menu checks misplaced: In the Windows version, selecting certain chart display menu commands wouldn’t place a check mark by that command, but instead would often check an adjacent command instead. This could be seen with the command “Moons Chart” on the Planetary Moons submenu, the “Aspect List”, “Midpoint List”, and “Arabic Parts” commands on the Chart menu, and the first five commands on the Graphics menu.
2. Star color dialog bug: In the Windows version, the More Object Settings dialog would set the color for All Stars to black, regardless of what the user put in that dialog field.
3. Customization dialog bug: In the Windows version, in the Object Customization dialog, entering certain planets would always be seen as one of the node/apsis points of the planet, instead of the planet itself. For example, entering “Mar” (Mars by itself) would always be interpreted as “Mar a” (for Mars apogee point), and would display as such when the dialog was reopened.
4. Extra latitude crossings: In the text mode Astro-graph chart with latitude crossings being displayed (-L0 switch), there would be extra bogus latitude crossings displayed for the last enabled object with an index beyond the house cusps. For example, extra latitude crossings would be displayed if a Uranian or fixed star object were enabled.
5. Sidereal rings bug: In the graphic telescope chart (-XZ switch), the angles of Saturn’s and Uranus’ rings would be wrong if the sidereal zodiac was active.
6. Earth telescope glitch: In the graphic telescope chart (-XZ switch), zooming in upon Earth when viewed from some other body would list the phase of the Earth twice, in two separate informational lines of text.
7. Moons chart glitch: The text mode planetary moons chart (-8 switch) would list a planetary moon as Conjunct every other planetary moon, if that planetary moon was set as the central object.
8. Transit calendar display: In non-Windows versions of Astrolog, displaying a window with the graphic calendar containing transit to natal aspects in it (-r0 -K -XA switches) would corrupt the natal data and display bad results after the next screen update.
9. Restriction bug: The -YR switch to set the restriction status of a range of objects wouldn’t properly enable Dwarf planet or planetary moon category objects, because changing such objects wouldn’t also turn on the setting that indicates at least some objects in those categories are active.
10. Save Settings bug: The “Save Settings” command (-od switch) wouldn’t save certain Display Format options correctly. It would save “360 degrees” as “Hours and Minutes” and vice versa, and set the other option when reloaded.
11. Save Settings orb limitation: The “Save Settings” command (-od switch), would round orb settings to nearest whole number. Fortunately, one could enter fractional orb settings in Astrolog's dialogs, or specify them with command switches, or enter them manually into the astrolog.as default settings file, and they would work that way.
12. Custom star omission: The -YU switch to customize a star object slot with a different star from sefstars.txt, wouldn’t automatically update the brightness of that object slot to be the new star.
13. Thickness glitch: When thicker lines are on (-Xx switch), glyphs are normally drawn thin when at the smallest character scale, to keep them legible. However, aspect glyphs (as well as the “-->” sign change markers in the graphic calendar chart) would remain thick, which would be inconsistent as well as looking bad.
14. Thickness printing bug: In the Windows version, printing when the thicker lines setting was on (-Xx switch) would sometimes result in inconsistent line thicknesses, in places such as aspects listed in the graphic calendar chart.
15. Degree symbol glitch: The degree symbol would sometimes not display correctly when the output codepage was set to UTF8. One would have to put -Ya1 on the command line to treat the input as IBM to get the right character output, but such workarounds are no longer necessary.
16. Customization bug: The -Ye switch is supposed to automatically produce a new display name to reflect the customized object slot. However, command switches such as -YeOn would instead produce garbage strings.
17. Constellation display glitch: The graphic world map chart when displaying constellations (-XW -XF switches) would occasionally have constellation lines cross the entire screen from left to right, instead of disappearing on one side to and reappearing on the other.
18. Command switch limitation: The -q2 command switch didn’t work as documented, because it would always set the contents of the first chart slot instead of the second. Related command switches such as -qm2 would still work and set chart slot #2.
19. Windows sequence bug: The -Yq switch when applied to the Windows version would sometimes result in a blank blue screen. That’s because the -Yq switch casts and displays multiple charts in sequence, which is designed for text mode charts displayed in a console, as opposed to trying to display multiple graphics charts at once in a single window.
20. Time subtraction bug: The -+t switch when given enough hours to back up to the previous day, would add a day instead.
21. File parsing bug: Tab characters in astrolog.as or other command script files would be seen as a line break, which would corrupt parsing of the file, and often end with an error about an unexpected command switch. Tab characters are now treated like any other whitespace.
AstroExpressions or “Astrolog Expressions” are programmable customizations that don’t require recompiling the program, and can be considered an extended form of command switches. AstroExpression functions and related command switches have been updated in version 7.50. This section can be ignored if one doesn’t use this feature area.
The following lists all new AstroExpression functions. The name of each function is listed, followed by the type of its return value and the expected types of its parameters (if any). Numbers will automatically be converted to Integer or Real as needed.
DMS: Real(RealD, RealM, RealS). Degrees, minutes, seconds. Returns a decimal number of degrees given a number of degrees, minutes within the degree, and seconds within the minute. For example, “DMS 12 30 0” will return 12.5.
LonDecan: Real(Real). Decan transformation. Transforms a zodiac position to its decan sign, like as done by the -3 switch.
LonNavam: Real(Real). Navamsa transformation. Transforms a zodiac position to its Navamsa sign, like as done by the -9 switch.
LonDwad: Real(Real). Dwad transformation. Transforms a zodiac position to its dwad sign, like as done by the -4 switch.
LonTerm: Int(Real, Int). Term determination. Returns the object corresponding to the given zodiac position. Depending on the integer parameter, this will be: 0=Decan ruler, 1=Chaldean decan, 2=Egyptian term, 3=Ptolemaic term.
_v3, _v31, _zv, _zf, _Yf, _XJJ, _X8: Bool or Int or Real. Program setting. This list of functions queries the Astrolog setting that’s set with the identically named command switch. There are only a few exceptions or alternate behaviors: Function _v31 is the optional parameter to the -v3 switch. Function _XJJ is a Boolean for the -XJ switch setting, and includes an extra “J” in its name to avoid a case insensitive name conflict with _Xj.
A few improvements, changes, or bug fixes have also been made in the AstroExpression area:
Decan division extended: The ~v3 switch AstroExpression has been extended to allow one to adjust the number of sign divisions and their size. On entry, @w contains the size of the current division in degrees, @x contains the sign index, @y contains the section index within the sign (starting with 0), and @z contains the planet index to use to label the section. Return value is ignored, although @w and @z can be changed to change the size of the division and how to label it. If @z is between -1 and -12 the section will be labeled with a sign instead of a planet, if @z is -100 or lower it will be labeled with a number that’s 100 plus that number (e.g. -100 is 0, -101 is 1, and so on), and if @z is between -13 and -99 then the section won’t be labeled at all.
Extra star filtering extended: The ~U and ~U0 switch AstroExpressions have been extended, and now one to change the custom variables @x through @z, to change the star or asteroid’s zodiac position longitude, ecliptic latitude, velocity, and magnitude.
Object ordering extended: The ~v switch AstroExpression will now affect the order in which aspects are printed. For example, if ~v places the Moon in order before the Sun, then aspects will be printed as "Moon Con Sun" (and not “Sun Con Moon” as based on the default object ordering).
Astro-graph filtering bug: The ~L switch AstroExpression to filter the latitude crossing results of the astro-graph chart (-L0 switch) didn’t work right, and wouldn’t display the events actually selected by the AstroExpression.
Object ordering limitation: The ~v switch AstroExpression wouldn’t affect the transit influence charts (-D and -T switches). These transit charts now will take object order into account when sorting aspects by object index.
Transit filtering limitation: The ~d and ~t switch AstroExpressions for the transit to transit and transit to natal times charts (-d and -t switches) would always set the recall chart (as accessed with “-i set”) for an event, even if that event was filtered out by the AstroExpression. This switch will now not set the recall chart until after the event has been approved.
Chart enumeration limitation: The -Y5 and -5Y switches which enumerate a chart weren’t easy to use, because they didn’t cast and fill out all relevant chart slots before doing the enumeration. That required extra work like using the -Yq switch on the command line to cast a chart first. These switches now automatically cast charts before enumeration, allowing the examples given for these switches to be easily run from the command line, or pasted into the “Enter Command Line” dialog in Windows version.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Astrolog and all chart display routines and anything not enumerated below used in this program are Copyright (C) 1991-2022 by Walter D. Pullen (Astara@msn.com, http://www.astrolog.org/astrolog.htm). Permission is granted to freely use, modify, and distribute these routines provided these credits and notices remain unmodified with any altered or distributed versions of the program.
The main ephemeris databases and calculation routines are from the library SWISS EPHEMERIS and are programmed and copyright 1997-2008 by Astrodienst AG. The use of that source code is subject to the license for the Swiss Ephemeris Free Edition, available at http://www.astro.com/swisseph. This copyright notice must not be changed or removed by any user of this program.
Additional ephemeris databases and formulas are from the calculation routines in the program PLACALC and are programmed and Copyright (C) 1989,1991,1993 by Astrodienst AG and Alois Treindl (alois@astro.ch). The use of that source code is subject to regulations made by Astrodienst Zurich, and the code is not in the public domain. This copyright notice must not be changed or removed by any user of this program.
The original planetary calculation routines used in this program have been copyrighted and the initial core of this program was mostly a conversion to C of the routines created by James Neely as listed in 'Manual of Computer Programming for Astrologers', by Michael Erlewine, available from Matrix Software.
Atlas composed using data from https://www.geonames.org/ licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Time zone changes composed using public domain TZ database: https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html
The PostScript code within the core graphics routines are programmed and Copyright (C) 1992-1993 by Brian D. Willoughby (brianw@sounds.wa.com).
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* "Who am I, What am I? As I am, I am not. But as we are, I AM. And to *
O you my creation, My Perfect Love is your Perfect Freedom. And I will be O
* with you forever and ever, until the End, and then forever more." - GOD *
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