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    Manual

    This is a powerful programs for Android phones and tablets that calculates Tropical, Sidereal, Geo- and Heliocentric planetary positions with high accuracy.
    The results are presented in clear, well-formatted table with several customization options.

    The program consists of two forms: Planets and Settings.
    You may switch between them with a menu that appears when you tap Ephemerides right/top corner.



    • Prev : go one month back
    • Next : go one month forward
    • Set date : set year and month
    In the center of the screen, in yellow text, calculation date and time (GMT) printed.
    Below, in small gray letters, there is a technical information: time ephemeris been calculated for, screen resolution and calculation library version, etc.

    Help button opens on your mobile device a web browser and directs that to this page.
    Tap Exit to quit the program



    Once you clicked Menu in top/right screen corner, three options list drops down:
    • Planets - switch to main page with planetary positions
    • Settings - go to settings page
    • Exit - quit the program

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    Settings

    • Use astro glyphs - display planet and zodiac sign names with special symbols, otherwise use letters.
    • Omit repeated zodiac signs - print zodiac sign only in case it differs from previous one. Exceptions are: first, last and 15 days of the month
    • Show days of the week
    • Decimal degrees - display coordinates not as degrees and minutes (21°30') of arc but as decimal degrees (21.5)
    • True Moon node - calculate a true Moon node instead of mean one
    • Sidereal zodiac - use sidereal (Hindu astrology) zodiac instead of Tropical (western)
    • Heliocentric - calculate heliocentric planetary positions instead of traditional geocentric. Note, that Sun and Moon nodes are unavailable in heliocentric system.



    Input year
    A standard Java library date picker component (Date button) on front screen allows to input the dates for years 1900-2100 only, so to get data beyond these bound you have to input the year directly on Settings screen. Allowed values are 1...2999. There is no 0 year because next after yea -1 (1 Before Christ, BC) is 1 AD (anno domini).

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    How accurate AstroElite Ephemerides for Android are?
    They are very accurate and 100% match JPL and so called Swiss Ephemeris.







    Note, that AE Ephemerides use Gregorian calendar date but Swiss ephemeris for 1 AD generated with Julian calendar. January 1, 0001 Gregorian corresponds January 3, 0001 Julian.
    Also there may be minuscule rounding differences because.






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    What is a difference between Pro and Free versions?
    FeatureFreePro
    Dates range200 years
    1900 AD* - 2099 AD
    1000 years
    1 AD - 2999 AD
    Heliocentric systemNoYes
    Sidereal zodiacNoYes
    Days of weekNoYes
    Omit repeated zodiac signsNoYes
    Decimal degrees formatNoYes

    * AD= anno domini (our epoch)

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    2016-07-29

    Colors for even rows highlighting, table header background and text now are customizable in v 5.17.



    To access color picker go to Settings and use Table header color, Table header color, Even rows highlight color buttons
    Tap Reset colors to assign them default values.



    2016-10-23

    how to change time zone so the times displayed don't require conversion from GMT?
    By default, ephemeris time is set to Greenwich noon (12:00 PM).
    If you want to get positions, let's say, for your local noon and you live on USA East Coast (GMT-4 in summer), you have go to Settings, tap Set time button and change Ephemeris time to 12:00 (desired local time)+ 4 (time zone to West)= 16:00.



    If you need local noon time for some time zone to East from Greenwich, subtract a time difference, i.e. set 12:00-TZ (8:00 for GMT+4 time zone)

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