Open source on Astrology ?

May 4, 2000

Hi,

I am a software engineer by profession and I am very interested in

building an astrology software.

Do any of you know of any open source available to calculate

- natal chart

- various Dasha bhuktis

- Ashtakavarga

- Shadbalas

- yogas

regards,

Uma

May 4, 2000

Hello

I am really not qualified to answer this, but here goes anyway:

Re Open Source Astro Code, you can get all the Western Stuff off the

web. However, nobody to my knowledge has open sourced any Vedic Code.

I am not going to anytime soon personally (open source mine that is- too

embarrassing-spaghetti!).

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Hi Aditya--

I'm a developer too. I'm not aware of any comprehensive Vedic stuff

that has been open-sourced, but a really full-featured Western product which

is open-sourced is Walter Pullen's Astrolog at www.astrolog.org.

Astrolog will do a Vedic natal chart, though. Here's a neat feature of

Astrolog--you can have it plot the geocentric motion of the planets as they

appeaar to revolve around the earth; it looks like a Spirograph drawing

after a while ;-).

The dashas and vargas are of course straightforward to calculate once

you've done the natal work, so that's no sweat; the strengths are slightly

more complicated, and I guess the combinations would be the most tedious of

all the things on your list.

If you're planning on doing transit searches, I would advise using an

ephemeris such as what comes with Astrolog and perhaps doing a cubic spline

interpolation or some such, since recalculating each of the planetary

positions so often will just murder you on the performance.

Here's a great reference you might find useful: Astronomical

Algorithms, by Jean Meeus, ISBN 0-943396-35-2.

Good luck! Sounds like you're in for some entertaining evenings!

jpd