astrognome/README.md

#Astrognome

Features

The features below are already implemented.

• Calculate planetary positions for any date, time and place on Earth, their aspects and mirrorpoints

Upcoming features

The features below will be implemented in the first release of Astrognome.

• Create natal charts for any date, time and place on earth, with exact planetary locations and their aspects
• Optionally include dwarf planets and comets: Chiron, Pallas, Ceres, Juno and Vesta
• Optionally include Vertex
• Time stepping
• Application settings
  • Default display properties (can be overridden per window)
    • Traditional view (personal planets and Ptolemaic aspects only)
    • Display major (Ptolemaic) aspects
    • Display minor aspects
    • Display antiscia/contra-antiscia
    • Display personal planets
    • Display outer planets
    • Display dwarf planets and asteroids
    • Display fixed stars
    • Display hidden ascendent
    • Display Vertex/anti-Vertex
  • Symbol of Uranus and Pluto to use in charts

Later features

The features below will become part of Astrognome in later versions.

• Custom location database
• Synastries (Composite charts)
• Transits
• Progression

Credits

Astrognome was originally created by Jean-André Santoni, and was hosted on Google Code. The original project is now rewrote from scratch, using the SWE-GLib library (which is actually a wrapper around Swiss Ephemeris library). Several ideas come from the original project, and from others like Placidus and Aquarius2Go.

Hacking

The project is currently hosted on GitHub. Just fork the repo, make your changes and issue a pull request. Don't like GitHub? That's fine with me; in this case, clone the repo, and send your changes, and send me your modifications at gergely@polonkai.eu as a git-bundle or a patch (in this latter case, you should also mention which commit is your base).

The entire project is written in C, utilizing GTK+ (3.8 currently, but the final version may come only with 3.10) and SWE-GLib (which is used for the calculations part).

!!!WARNING!!!

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The code is a bit messy yet, and displays calculated data only in a textual form. Graphics will be added later.