Skylendar 1.5 review
DownloadSkylendar is a free that is licensed under the GPL Licence and modern design astrology software for Linux and the KDE 3 desktop envir
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Skylendar is a free that is licensed under the GPL Licence and modern design astrology software for Linux and the KDE 3 desktop environment.
Here are some key features of "Skylendar":
A Wheel Chart, displaying with up to 4 concentric rings.
A Standard List Chart, that displays a text list of objects positions and speeds, aspects and mid-points tables.
A Simple or Dual Aspects Scan List Chart, that displays a text list of the current towards natal or mutual aspects occuring during a given time span.
Uses the high precision Swiss ephemeris library for computation. (Notice that the swiss ephemeris is NOT FREE for commercial use)
Numerous planets, virtual planets, exotic objects, stars, aspects, and ayanamsa computing methods.
Numerous parameters managed, such as orbs, orbs additions, aspects colors, etc...
A SQL database interface for storing/retrieving the personal data and restrictions sets. (Actually PostgrSQL 7.2.x).
Single, transiting, progressed and directed subcharts.
Aspects table below the wheel chart.
Animation.
Printing.
True multitasking chart computation. e.g. An animation can run while scanning for mutual aspects.
Requirements:
KDE 3.x
QT 3.x
PostgreSQL 7.2.x or 8.x client and server, the plpgsql language plug-in, and probably the QT-PostgreSQL driver
perl-xml-enno for the skif utility.
What's New in This Release:
A local horizon chart and an object list chart were added.
Objects and aspect values can be retrieved via a DCOP interface.
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