Scroll up for the 2011 Free Version of the Beta Ephemeris.
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The NEW Star Beta Version above can be downloaded to your computer. The recent star control and aspect functions, demonstrated in Star Beta, are available in the paid Star Ephemeris. The Pro Beta version (without zodiac control and aspect functions) is still available for download and purchase.
About the Antikythera Mechanism & Graphic Astrology/Astronomy Ephemeris
The Graphic Ephemeris is a twenty-first century digitally animated planet
and star chart. It presents the night sky as an analog timepiece,
akin to the Antikythera Mechanism.
The Antikythera Mechanism was an ancient astronomical clock or astrarium.
The ruins of this orrery device were recovered from a two thousand
year old sunken ship wreck in the Mediterranean Sea near the island
of Antikythera.
The relic is presumed to have been constructed by the early Greeks
who, unlike people of the modern era, did not distinguish between
astronomy and astrology. Both scientific observation and esoteric
knowledge were wound-up together in the Antikythera Mechanism.
A complex arrangement of clockwork-like gears controlled the mechanism,
as current day reconstructions of the device demonstrate. The Graphic Astrology Ephemeris, on the other
hand, utilizes a database of coordinates
driven by equations, to achieve a similar looking planetary cyclic
rotation.
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about both,
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In the ancient world, the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter
and Saturn were known. The
Graphic Ephemeris adds the outer planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto to the display. The outer planets
are too dim to be seen with the naked eye and so were unknown by the ancients. Uranus however, is
visible at it's closest approach, under very clear skies.
Latitude and longitude positions of the planets, along the ecliptic,
are displayed in the Star
version of the Graphic Ephemeris. The
Antikythera Mechanism does not display planetary latitudes in relation
to the zodiac, probably not because this info was unknown to the ancient
Greeks, but due instead to it's difficulty to "gear" it into the machine.
These celestial computers, like planetariums, astrolabes, tellurions and torquetums, are anaphoric
star disks, animated views of our solar system's complexity and beauty.
To buy the Ephemeris: Scroll up and click the buy ephemeris button or the Free Download button on the Star Beta Ephemeris, then select a purchase
option.
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