Solar Maps Features (back to Solar Maps)

Zodiac Types
Celestial zodiac (for normal charts)
Geodetic zodiacs (for mundane charts) with user-definable starting longitude and direction

House Systems
Campanus, Koch, Meridian, Morinus, Placidus, Porphyry, Regiomontanus, Topocentric, Equal

Chart Points
Planets: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
Asteroids: Chiron, Vesta, Pallas, Juno, Ceres, Hygeia, Astraea
Others: Moon’s Nodes (Mean or True), Vulcan, Transneptunians, Transpluto Dark Moon Lilith (mean position)

You may select any combination of the above points for display on maps or in chart wheels
You may customise the colors used for each chart point. Charts may be calculated for any date from 5400BC to 5400AD

Calculations
by Swiss Ephemeris for state-of-the-art accuracy

Atlas
Contains the full ACS International and American atlas, with coordinates and timezones of over 250,000 places around the world.

Charts

Some sample charts of famous people are supplied
Existing charts may be imported from Solar Fire, Nova, Blue*Star, Kepler 2.7 or QuickCharts files
New charts may be cast for dates ranging from 5400BC to 5400D, and overlaid on maps
Charts may be progressed (by secondary or tertiary rates) or directed by Solar Arc, and overlaid on natal chart angles

Transiting Charts may be calculated and overlaid on natal chart angles

An AstroClock option allows the display of a chart which is automatically updated at regular intervals

Charts may be stepped or animated with user selectable time intervals (for both natal, transiting, progressed or directed charts).

Charts may be viewed as overlays on any map, in a normal chart wheel, or in a local horizon wheel.

"Solar Maps is the finest program on the market for locational astrology. It allows he astrologer to use the best of the known techniques plus its features also offer the ability to access new and highly practical information." -- Steve Cozzi, author of Planets in Locality

Day/Night shading option allows you to see the Sun’s shadow across the earth, either for any natal chart, or moving in real time with the AstroClock.

Charts may be relocated by selecting a city from the database, or just by pointing

and clicking on the map.
Planets or Midpoints on MC
Planets or Midpoints on IC
Planets or Midpoints rising or on Asc
Planets or Midpoints setting or on Dsc
Aspects to Planets on MC, IC, Asc, Dsc lines
Paran lines for any one planet in combination with all others or for all planet combinations at once.
Planet directions (either natal or relocated)
Local horizon
Local houses
Ecliptic
Zodiacal signs
Total solar eclipse line
Partial solar eclipse lines

All planet lines types may also be used for any selected fixed stars.

Eclipses
You can select any solar eclipse (partial or total) from 1801AD to 2200AD, and display its path across the earth on any map.
Eclipse paths may be overlaid on top of astrolines for any chart.
Multiple eclipse paths may be plotted simultaneously.

Stars
You can select up to 36 stars to be displayed along with, or instead of, planets
A supplied fixed star editor allows you to enter data for any celestial objects of your choice

Maps

More than 100 pre-defined standard maps are supplied
You can create and save as many new maps as you wish for any region of the world.
Maps may be stored in a hierarchical list organized by region.
You can select and adjust the required map region by zooming and panning (limit of zooming in any map is down to a map width of about 12’ of longitude – typically 30kms)
Map land and sea colors are fully customisable
You can select and adjust which city and country names are plotted on maps
Click and point to measure distances or angles on any map
You can view the world map in rectangular or Mercator view, or as a sphere or spheroid.
Maps (and overlaid charts) may be printed on color or monochrome printers.
Maps (and overlaid charts) may be copied to the clipboard or saved as graphic files
(BMP, GIF) or as an attachment to an email.