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FREE and/or Open Source Desktop Software! => What is it? => Hobby Hutch => Topic started by: Software Santa on February 28, 2013, 11:18:31 PM
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Morinus is a Free Cross Platform Astrological Program Written in Python
IMPORTANT: If you can't download the files (e.g. they are corrupted) then try it from another internet connection or try it later.
Morinus is an easy to use astrology software under GPLv3 license. It uses the swiss ephemeris so it's very accurate (5000BC - 5000AD).
It runs on every Operating System where Python and wxPython are available(Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOS).
Note that in case of a chart created for a date earlier than 1583 Julian-calendar need to be used.
Features
Computes a horoscope with high accuracy between 5000BC-5000AD
Place database
Positions(Speculum)
Misc data (Sidereal time, Obliquity of Ecliptic, ...)
Find time from planetary positions
Graphical Ephemeris (Tropical or Sidereal)
12 Housesystems
Showing the charts in several ways (Themes) [Looks]
Synastry
Aspects
Selectable Traditional Aspects
Midpoints
Rise/Set times (GMT)
Almutens(acc. to the Arabs and Ibn Ezra(Points, Chart, Topical))
Selectable individual colors or acc. to dignities
Speeds (velocity)
Selectable fixedstars(max. 40 out of 800)
Antiscia
Zodiacal Parallels
30-deg Strip(Horary)
Lot of Fortune (several types)
Arabic Parts(max. 40)
Syzygy(Prenatal Lunation) (in Misc Table)
Day/Night orb
Mundane Lot of Fortune(in Mundane Positions table)
Planetary Hours (Table: data in LMT)
Topocentric Positions
Ayanamsha
Square(Medieval) Chart
Profections (zodiacal, mundane(Cielo e Terra); Gregorian and GMT) [Yearly and Monthly]
Save to bitmap (black and white or color)
Transits (date, month)
Revolutions
Precession and Nutation corrected Solars in case of an ayanamsa
Transits of the Sun
Secondary Directions (Apparent Solar Time, Mean-Time)
Elections
Selectable showing of the Fixedstars, Antiscia, Lot of Fortune, Terms, Decans in the chart
Primary Directions(mundane, zodiacal)
Placidus(semiarcus) or Ptolemy
Placidus(UnderThePole) (zodiacal only, with or without latitude)
Regiomontanus
Campanus
Zodiacal only: Terms, Fixstars, Syzygy (Primary Directions)
Zodiacal Parallels (Primary Directions)
Topocentric positions (Primary Directions)
Secondary Motion of the Moon (Primary Directions)
User-point (Primary Directions)
User2-point (Primary Directions)
Speculum of user-point or user2-point (Primary Directions)
Primary Keys(static, dynamic)
Second-resolution time-stepping(Primary Directions)
Converse Primary Directions can also be timed by regressive Sun in case of True Solar Arc
PDs-In-Chart, Ingress (right-click on a PD-row in the PD-list)
Primary Directions in solar and lunar revolutions
Available in english, hungarian, italian, french, russian and spanish
In the options menu:
Appearance
Symbols
Dignities
Minor Dignities(Triplicities, Terms, Decans)
Almutens
Ayanamsha
Colors
HouseSystems
Nodes
Orbs
Primary Directions
Primary Keys
PDs-In-Chart
Lot of Fortune
Arabic Parts(editor)
Syzygy
Fixstars
Profections
Menu selections
Languages
Horoscopes and options can be saved and reloaded and you can invoke a popup menu by right-clicking on any of the windows except for the window of the radix because it has its own menu-bar. Primary Directions can also be saved to a text file.
Download (Binary):
Windows
This is the simple way, just download MorinusWinEng.zip (https://sites.google.com/site/pymorinus/Home/MorinusWinEng.zip?attredirects=0&d=1) (see attachments at the bottom of the page) and extract it. You can start the program by clicking on morinus.exe. However, this way the program will use the built-in Moshier-ephemeris(3000BC-3000AD) which calculates the same positions for e.g. 1973. You can remedy this if you download the zipped ephemeris files (Ephem1.zip, Ephem2.zip, Ephem3.zip, Ephem4.zip at the bottom of the page), extract it and copy the files into the MorinusWinEng/SWEP/Ephem directory. Google Sites allows uploading files not greater than 12MB, this is why I had to split the Swiss Ephemeris into four files. Tested on WinXP(SP2, SP3) and Win7(32 bit and 64 bit). Important: This is the 32-bit version(sweastrology.pyd)!
There is no need to install python because it is already included in the Windows-binary.
https://sites.google.com/site/pymorinus/ (https://sites.google.com/site/pymorinus/)
Download Windows Binary: https://sites.google.com/site/pymorinus/Home/MorinusWinEng.zip?attredirects=0&d=1 (https://sites.google.com/site/pymorinus/Home/MorinusWinEng.zip?attredirects=0&d=1)