For Sky Lovers

[Guest guest]

Hi All,

 

Diana Rosenberg has been tracking mundane events against the stars and

constellations for a long,long time. I've just purchased a newly revised

(2003) sky program that's absolutely wonderful for showing the starry

background of the astrological signs. This is the first low cost astronomy

program I've seen that can be set for the ecliptic grid (Tropical signs,

but that's better than RA/DEC to see the relationship of stars to the

ecliptic).

 

The program is a wonderful way to see which planets conjoin which stars in

the context of zodiac signs either for personal charts or for mundane

events, past or present. Sky printouts are very nice and very fast to

print. Two printed pages (set for 'zenith') will give you the entire sky

for any date all the way from the ecliptic to the poles with

constellations, planets and stars.

 

From the current skymap I noted that Saturn is now conjunct Pollux on the

Gemini-Cancer boundary. Pollux is of the nature of Mars: the Russian school

incident, strong quakes and typhoons in Japan, hurricanes in Florida,

continued bloodshed in Iraq, etc. Watching mundane events is a wonderful

way to track the probable influence of the actual stars.

 

SkyMap is totally user-configurable, down to the size and color of the

stars, constellational lines, location on earth, time period (4000 BC to

8000 AD), zoom level, grids (Ecliptic, RA/DEC, Azimuth/altitude [see where

the M.C. is in relation to the equal house 10th cusp]), day, twilight,

night skies with true star colors, star catalogs, deep sky objects, etc.

etc., all for only $39.99. (This is for SkyMap Lite 2003. Only dedicated

students of the sky with telescopes will want SkyMap Pro10 for around $100...)

 

http://www.skymap.com/ (SkyMap Lite 2003)

 

No, I don't work for the SkyMap company. I just love this program that's

perfect for astrologers. I learned that the author of the program doesn't

care much for astrology, but so what? It's still a great program for us!

 

Therese

[Guest guest]

At 03:16 AM 9/10/04 EDT, Wing wrote:

>This is for SkyMap Lite 2003

>it's now on my wishlist! thanks for the info /// wing

 

Way to go, Chris! Happy you're considering the program. Working with SkyMap

brings cheer on a dismal day. It's fun, and besides, shows us where the

constellations really are in relation to the ecliptic. (It might be

possible to set added grid lines and approximate the sidereal signs. I'm

not sure.)

 

Therese