Planet*Cycle 2.0© Updated 05/17/00 10:53:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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Planet*Cycle 2.0© takes as its INPUT, a beginning harmonic number, an ending harmonic number, plus a number of parts (divisions) for the cycle, and Two Dates.
Planet*Cycle
2.0© RETURNS the present state of the mean synodic
motion cycle of the planets, asteroids, uranians, comets
through as many harmonics as you would care to investigate. Mean
synodic cycles of the planets are very useful in astrological
work because they smooth out the annual retrograde motion cycles
and are based purely on time and periodicity much the same as the
well-known bioryhthm model.
The only adjustment in time that you have to make is to adjust
your birth time to your current time zone to agree with
the time zone on your computer. For example, if
you were born at 2:00 PM in Washington, DC, Eastern Standard
Zone(5) and you now live in Oakland, California, Pacific Standard
Zone (8), you must subtract three hours from your time of birth.
If you moved east you must add
3 hours. Do not attempt to adjust for Local Mean Time because for
this application such an adjustment is incorrect. Clock time is
what you want to use. Planet*Cycle
2.0© will adjust for Daylight Savings Time
automatically for any date in the past or present according to
the standard formula now used in the modern world.
Previous regional differences will not be dealt with and if you
know of a difference from the norm in earlier dates make an
adjustment by subtracting 1 hour. Wartime is also not covered so
you must subtract 1 hour for it as well.
Time is optional and you need not include it, but
if you include it for one date you have to include it for the
second date or the program will generate a NaN (not a number)
error which means that it tried to interpret a blank space.
If you have data accurate to seconds or even milliseconds that
you want to test you can use it, but you must remember to use
it for each date as previously mentioned. If you
generate more data than you can easily process, reduce the number
of harmonics used or increase the number of parts per cycle. You
may start with any harmonic but the ending harmonic must be a
higher number. If you try to put in a beginning harmonic higher
than an ending harmonic the program will not generate data.
By changing the parts per cycle you can
effectively increase or decrease the orbs that
you use. A higher number of parts per cycle
creates a narrower orb and a lower
number of parts per cycle creates a wider orb.
720 parts per cycle (default) gives
an orb of 1/2 degree on either side of exact. 56
parts per cycle gives an orb equal to the mean synodic motion of
the Moon of 1/2 day on either side of exact. If the cycle
is past completion you will receive an indication that the
cycle is Separating, and consequently if the cycle
is before completion you will receive an indication that
the cycle is Applying. Zeros will not crash the
program and are actually a convenient way (parts per cycle) to
see all of the cycles that are in this edition.
The periods of time used for these cycles are adjustments based
upon the Harvard Minor Planet Catalogs, The
Uranian Ephemeris, The Nautical Almanac,
and the periodicities used in the adapted routines of James
Neely. This new edition of Planet*Cycle© has included in
it the provisional periods for 10 hypothetical planets put forth
by the late Charles Jayne in the early 1970's.
Cycle names suffixed by "_CJ" refer to
those planets.
The suffix "_AW"
refers to Alfred Witte's original four Uranian
planets. The suffix "_FS" refers to Friederich
Sieggrün's four Uranian planets. The motion of the
Earth refers to the rotation of 1 day of 24 hours clock time. All
cycles are referenced to the Earth cycle. Physical,
Emotional, and Intellectual are
the biorythm cycles. This version has 89
different cycles which it measures.
This program is written in JScript, for the Microsoft
Internet Explorer versions 4 and above and Netscape
4 and above. It showcases a
new interactive browser technology which is immediate, powerful
and transportable, and very efficient. Execution times in Explorer 5.0
are nearly instantaneous, Netscape 4.7 may vary
according to individual settings for your browser. This program
does not write to your disk but is instead interpreted by your
browser which allocates ram for the arrays that are used. This program will run on any PC or Macintosh computer that will load a browser which will
interpret Java Script. As of this writing it will not
operate on the OPERA browser from Norway.
If you want to run the program again
just Refresh (F5) on Explorer; or Reload (control R) on
Netscape.
If you want to keep this copy, just save it as you would
any other file or web page. It is not dependent
upon the web server in any way at all. You may send
it to a colleague attached to an eMail and when it is detached it
will run perfectly!
You do not
have to be on-line to operate this program!
Keep Planet*Cycle
2.0© as a shortcut on your desktop.
This program is shareware
... feel free to use it and freely distribute it. If you enjoy
using it and would like to receive enhanced upgraded versions as
they become available including additional asteroids and comets
of your choosing, more transneptunian objects, additional
hypothetical planets, numerology, Asian astrology, Aztec/Mayan
astrology, and many other user programmable features please
register the program by sending $20.00 to
Michael Kerry Jordan,
128 Kenyon Ave.,
Kensington, CA 94708.
Thank you!