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'Pocket PC Astrology at Your Fingertips!''
With the freedom of the Pocket PC, you can easily enter and display astrology charts anywhere, anytime with Astracadabra.
Astracadabra has the calculation accuracy of the Swiss Ephemeris, the convenience of the full ACS PC Atlas for city or town lookups and the core features of astrology that you have come to expect from a professional astrological software package.
Astracadabra is written by Neville Lang, a keen student of astrology since 1970. Most of these years were devoted to studying the various techniques of western astrology such as Traditional, Psychological, Cosmobiology and Medieval. In recent years he has focused on the study of Vedic astrology techniques and now specializes in this field of astrology. Neville Lang is also an accomplished systems analyst and programmer.
Tools for the Modern, Classical and Vedic Astrologer
- Import /Export Charts from Solar Fire: Any chart entered into Astracadabra will automatically be available in Solar Fire. You can exchange chart files with Solar Fire on your desktop/laptop computer giving you complete access and synchronisation to all your current chart files.
- Create New Charts: You can create your own natal chart and display it in a simple and attractive chart style. You have a choice of 31 house systems and 12 zodiacs.
- View Bi-Wheels: Natal charts can also be viewed in a bi-wheel with Transits, Secondary Progressions, Tertiary Progressions, Minor Progressions and Solar Arc, User-defined progressions or User-defined Directions around the outside or in synastry using two natal charts.
- Realtime clock feature shows the current transits 'ticking over' on the single wheel. This feature also works on a bi-wheel with the current transits 'ticking over' on the outer wheel.
- Aspect Toolbar allows you to display one or more aspects in the middle of a chart. Great for studying each type of aspect.
- Time Stepper allows you to step either a single chart or bi-wheel using increments of second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year.
- Adjust Ascendant feature enables you to enter a sign and degree and, optionally, a minute and second of a degree to calculate a birth time.
- Highly accurate Swiss Ephemeris is used as the base calculation 'engine', a 1AD to 5399AD ephemeris. Chiron, Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta calculated from 1200AD.
- Full ACS PC Atlas embedded, with more than 250,000 latitudes, longitudes and time zones.
- Calculations: Natal, Transits, Secondary Progressions, Tertiary Progressions, Minor Progressions, Solar Arc and Solar Return, User-defined Progressions and Direction rates.
- Charts may be displayed in Round wheel format or in square chart format for Classical western, North Indian, South Indian or East Indian styles.
- A list of Solar Eclipses from 1801 - 2100 can be viewed and selected as a chart.
- Aspect lines may be selected for either the single or bi-wheel.
- Aspect grid for either the single or bi-wheel.
- Sorted list of aspects from closest orb to widest orb can be selected for either single wheel or bi-wheel.
- Planet, Point and House Cusp calculations (to minute of arc) are listed separately for a single wheel or Bi-wheel.
- List of Declinations sorted numerically from zero to less than 30 degrees regardless of North or South of equator. Easy to see parallels and contra-parallels for single or bi-wheel.
- Save and retrieve charts to Astracadabra chart files.
- Automatically convert Astracadabra chart files to any version of Solar Fire for use in Solar Fire on a user's desktop or laptop computer.
- Convert any version of Solar Fire to Astracadabra chart files feature so that a user can quickly download latest charts to Astracadabra before going out.
Option to display charts with chart files in Name order, Date order or in the order they were added to the chart file.
- Chart classification option (Male/Female etc).
- Essential Dignities Report showing the various dignities and scores for each planet. There are indicators if a planet is in dignity or debilitated. Also includes options for Triplicities and Terms. Triplicity options include Ptolemy, Lilly, Dorothean. Terms include Ptolemy or Egyptian.
- Vedic dasas report displays the Vimshottari dasas down to five levels and displays the Dasa balance and Progressed Dasa Points (PDPs for the Ascendant, Moon and Sun).
- Vedic Divisional chart report displays a table of planet sign positions for D3 to D12 and includes an indicator of a planet's debilitated sign.
- All house systems found on Solar Fire plus the Horizontal house system.
- All zodiacs found on Solar Fire.
- The list of planet positions shows retrograde and combustion using the orbs from Vedic Astrology. There is also an indicator showing if a planet is running slow or is stationary.
- Clock feature allows a single or bi-wheel to display and updates the current transits every 30 seconds. You may watch either a chart or report update every 30 seconds.
- Krishnamurti (KP) system: KP Details report displays planet and house cusp longitudes to seconds of arc as well as their Star, Sub and Sub Sub Lords. The report also displays planet and house significators, Ruling Planets (RPs), indicators if an RP is in a Star or Sub of a retrograde planet or if a RP is retrograde itself, except Rahu and Ketu. The Badhaka and Maraka planets are also listed.
- For the KP system, an orb between 0 degrees and 5 degrees can be optionally set placing a planet in the next house if a planet is within this orb of the next house cusp and is used in significator calculations. The KP Horary feature calculates a chart after a number between 1 and 249 has been entered and the corresponding Ascendant determined. This feature is particularly useful where multiple Horary questions are asked in a short space of time.
- The Krishnamurti New zodiac option uses the new Krishnamurti ayanamsa as at 2003. The original Krishnamurti ayanamsa can also be selected. If you purchase a memory card for your Pocket PC, Astracadabra can be moved to that memory card, freeing up your Pocket PC's RAM.
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ASTRACADABRA REQUIREMEMNTS:
The general rule is that the device must have: (a) 64MB RAM (or more), (b) a touch-sensitive rectangular screen (not a square screen) and (c) must use Windows Mobile 2003, Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition, Windows Mobile 5.0 or the latest Windows Mobile 6. I have not tested Astracadabra v1.7 on the new Windows Mobile 6 operating system yet but judging from the technical specifications, it should work fine on these newer devices.
For Pocket PCs, any of the 'HP' iPAQ models or the 'Dell' Axim are suitable with some exceptions where devices use only 32MB RAM or have the square screen.
For Pocket PC Phones, the number of devices is growing by the day. In Australia, any models in the 'i-mate' range, the 'O2' range, 'Dopod' range or 'HTC' range. In the USA, most of these devices are controlled by the phone companies themselves but the equivalent 'brands' are the 'Cingular', 'Sprint' and 'T-Mobile' devices, to name a few.
The Astracadabra manufacture is happy to continue to confirm any specific brand and model with customers if they are not sure. It is a murky world out there with all of the different brands and models with some devices simply not compatible with Astracadabra.
Since the launch of Windows Mobile 6, Microsoft has again changed the naming conventions. Any device without a phone is now called a 'PDA' and any device with a phone in it is now called a 'Smartphone'. So, the old name of 'Pocket PC' and 'Phone Edition' are now gone. Further, the different flavors of the operating system have changed too. What we used to call a Pocket PC is now called a PDA running Windows Mobile 6 Classic or Windows Mobile 5 for Pocket PC software. A Phone Edition (what I called a Pocket PC Phone) is now a Smartphone running Windows Mobile 6 Professional or Windows Mobile 5 for Pocket PC Phone Edition, and what we called a Smartphone (no touch-sensitive screen) is a Smartphone running Windows Mobile 6 Standard or Windows Mobile 5 for Smartphone. The old 'Smartphone' name was never compatible with Astracadabra but it is added here for completeness.
You need a Pocket PC or Pocket PC Phone Edition with:
- Windows Mobile 5.0, Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition, Windows Mobile 2003 or Pocket PC 2002 operating system.
- A minimum of 64Mb RAM and a minimum of 32 MB ROM.
- A touch screen.
- A desktop or laptop PC with a version of Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
- Please note that Astracadabra CANNOT be installed onto:
--A Smartphone (a phone with some Pocket PC functionality), typically one without a touch screen.
--A Pocket PC or Pocket PC Phone Edition with a square screen (240x240 pixels or 480x480 pixels).
--A Windows Mobile 5.0 device that has a security configuration of 'Locked' or 'Third-Party Signed'. Some telephone companies may set Pocket PC Phone Editions in one of these two security modes. Experience so far suggests that no telephone company has used these security settings yet.
If your Pocket PC or Pocket PC Phone Edition has Windows Mobile 5.0 as its operating system and you have Windows XP on your desktop or laptop PC then make sure your Windows XP has been updated to Service Pack 2.
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