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Home > Produkten > NewcombV2eng                                                                                                       to the dutch version

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Introduction

The last version of the program Newcomb (V1) is, as already said, written for a DOS environment. From the data of the astrological counseling office Gieles VOF in The Hague, there were clear indications that there quite some people who used the dutch program Ptolomeus under DOS or Windows-3.1

Now with the latest developments almost everybody has a PC running under Windows-95 or higher (98, NT, 2000, Me, XP).

I had to revise my program for this large group of users and to accommodate for the many suggestions that people had done. This resulted in hard work with the programming language Delphi-4 and I created Newcomb Version-2 from scratch (only using my self developped astronomy calculations). All posibilities of Newcomb Version-2 will be discused below.

Standard characteristics for both Newcomb-V1 as Newcomb-V2. (for extra characteristics of V2)

Radix horoscpe. 
(“planets” = Sun, Moon, planets, Moons node and Part Of Fortune)

Harmonics: voor all planets. Every harmonic chosen between 1-99 will be calculated and also used in the progressive horoscope when checked in the radix options.

·     Antiscia for all planets when checked in the radix options. You can choose to mirror around the axis 90-270 (Cancer-Capricorn) or 0-180 (Aries-Libra)

·     Midpoints for alle planets and houses. These midpoints are shown in the report in 3 columns

Geocentric Right Ascension and Lattitude for all planets. RA is shown to 0,001 sec. Lattitude is shown
to 1 second of arc.

Heliocentric Longitude and Lattitude. For people who like heliocentric astrology. But also very useful for comparing/calculating heliocentric positions of planets. Longitude and Lattiude will be shown up to 0,01 seconds of arc.

Apparent or True positions. This option is new to common astrology programs. You can decide to calculate True positions (as they are in reality) or Apparent (as we see them in the sky at any moment).

Nodes of the planets. Just like the Moon’s Node (Dragon Head) which is the intersection point of the Moon’s orbit with the Ecliptic (Sun’s orbit), all other planets have nodes too. Their orbits also intersect the Sun’s orbit. If checked in the Radix options, the program will show all planet’s nodes in a report

Reaction points. The famous dutch astrologer Cornelis Gorter discusses this in his book “De Techniek der Astrologie”. Reaction point are calculated when checked in the Radix options and are shown in a report. You can read more about them in the Newcomb manual which is also in this website.

House systems. The program offers 8 house systems: Placidus, Regiomontanus, Morinus, Koch, Campanus, Topocentric, Equal Houses from the Ascendant and Phorphyry.

Application of the 110 Fixed Stars. As documented in Vivian Robson’s book “The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology”. Precision 0,1 seconds of arc. They are calculated when checked in the Radix options and are also used in progeressions to date.

Declinations of planets and houses when checked in the Radix options. They are also used for the progressive horoscope to calculate parallels to date.

Besides the “normal aspects” (0,30,45,60,90,120,135,150,180,parallel) you can also decide to use additional aspects (18,36,72,108,144 and the Septile). When checked in the Radix Options you can also set the orb for these aspects. You can also use them when calculating the progressive horoscope and the progressions to date

Eastpoint calculation. The Eastpoint is the Ascendant for 0 degrees lattidue for the same Sidereal Time of your horoscope. When checked in the Radix options the Eastpoint will be shown in a report.

Vertex calculation. The Vertex is the intersection of the Prime Vertical with the plane of the Ecliptic. When this Radix option is checked, the Vertex will be shown on a report.

Compass. Longitude, Lattitude, RA and Declination are used to calculate Azimuth and Height. Azimuth is given from 0 (north) to 90 (east), 180 (south), 270 (west) and 360 (north). With this compass you can decide where to go, take a job, etc.

True Node. Normally the ascending Moon’s Node (Dragons Head) is calculated from the “mean” data of the Moon’s orbit. The Mean Node is always retrograde with  a mean velocity of about 3’12” per day. The Moon’s True Node can go retrograde as prograde. When checked in the Radix options, the program will calculate True Node for Radix and progressions.

Sidereal Zodiak. Almost all astrologers use the Tropical Zodiak with the Tropical Sign Aries as the beginning point of the ecliptic. When you check the Radix option Sidereal Zodiak, all planets and houses are calculated for the acutal position of the Equinox to the background of the Fixed Stars (using Precession). Radix positions, aspects and progressions are calculated for the Sidereal option. The Synetic Vernal Point (accordig to Fagan) is calculated to 0,1 seconds of arc.

Orbs can be adjusted for the aspects 0,30,45,60,90,120,135,150,180 and parallel.

Progressieve horoscope

Normal or traditional progressions on basis: 1 day = 1 year. Aspects to date are calculated for any specific year or for a range of dates. Progressive houses are calculated according the setting in the Radix options. When checked, the True Lunar Node is calculated instead of the Mean Node. When checked, the Sidereal positions are calculated instead of Tropical ones. When checked either True of Apparent positions are calculated.

Progressions using the MINUS-1 system of the duch astrologer Jan Bernard Gieles. Aspects to date are calculated for any specific year or for a range of dates. Progressive houses are calculated according the setting in the Radix options. When checked, the True Lunar Node is calculated instead of the Mean Node. When checked, the Sidereal positions are calculated instead of Tropical ones. When checked either True of Apparent positions are calculated.

Transit aspects for the planets Mars to Pluto for a period of max. 60 days. Houses are calculated according to the Radix options settings. True Lunar Node or Mean Node is optional. Sidereal or Tropical is optional. True or Apparent positions is optional.

Sun’s Arc progressions. All progressive positions of the planets (except the Sun) are determined by the arc the Sun has progressed from birth. You can choose for Traditional progressions of MINUS-1 progressions for the Sun and planets. Options like True Lunar Node, Sidereal positions or Apparent/True positions can be used here too.

Harmonic progressions. You can calculate harmonic progressions by entering the progressive year(s). The program calculates the Harmonics for every progressive year and calculates progressions to date.

Actual World Situation. In the duch Magazine “Sagittius” the World Situation has been published with great success. To make these predictions, the actual positions from the ephemeris were used but in addition… the transits of the planets across the Actual Fixed Stars. This was the “secret” behind the World Situation stories. You can calculate this by setting the World Situation option in the Progressieve Options.

List of Primary Progressions of the House cusps. From any date to any othr date you can make a list of all Primary Directions to date of the progressive houses to radix planets and houses. House system is set in the Radix options settings.

List of progressive house positions from any starting date to any ending date. This option makes a compact list of the progressive cusps 10,11,12,1,2 and 3. Houses are calculated according to the Radix options settings.

In all cases, whenever progressions to date are calculated, the program looks at the Radix options settings. When the option “Fixed Stars” is unchecked, progressive conjunctions to the Fixed Stars are not calculated. When the option “Declinations” is unchecked, then progressive parallels are not calculated. 
When the option “True Node” is checked, progressive aspects of the True Lunar Node are taken.

Some extra options to Newcomb-V1(i.e. also in Newcomb-V2)

You can store horoscopes to hard disk for later use

Using the data from Vivian Robson’s book “The Fixed Stars and constellations in Astrology”, a list of all 110 Fixed Stars will be produced to a report. These are all stars related to the calculated horoscope. Longitude and Declination will be given to the arc second

You can show on the screen or print to a report the positions of houses and planets for any date in the future or in the past (even before the date of birth!). These are the progressed planets and houses following the chosen options in Progressions Options.

In addition daily velocities of all planets are shown and planets are sorted in descending order of zodiak position. In this way, manually drawing the planets into the horoscope is made easier.

Correction of the horoscope

This VERY important part of the program will allow you to correct the horoscope for events in the past on an exact date. Correction is automatically made to the birth time. You can show the horoscope data including the corrections in birth time.

There are 2 cases of correction:

Case-1:
A progressive planet makes an aspect with a radix house cusp on a certain date. First you calculate the exact progressive position of the planet with the program. Then in the correction part, you set the radix cusp to the desired position it should have and the program gives you the correction of the birth time. The program gives the new birth time, the new sidereal time up to 0,01 sec. With an option you can re-calculate the new horoscope with the corrected birth time. You can see the shift in longitude position of the planets and you can decide to make an extra correction, if needed.

Case-2:
A progressive cusp is making an aspect with a radix planet on a certain date.The program asks you for the date of the event. Then you enter the position of the progressive cusp longitude it should have. The program calculates the correction of the birth time up to 0,01 sec. You can view the new horoscope data after correction to the screen.

With the program a database of 2600 dutch places with coordinates is included. This database can be maintained by yourself and is expandible to about 6000 places (this is for Newcomb-V1 only !!!)
Newcomb-V2 has a larger database of about 2600 dutch cities, 2800 belgian cities and about 6600 german cities.

Extra characteristics for the program Newcomb-V2  (see standard characteristics)

• Selection of horoscope from a file. You can make selections on (part of) the name, some planet in a house, some planet in a sign

• Sort horoscope database to name, year, month, day, city, category to make selections easier

• Selection of cities from a very accurate database for Holland, Belgium and Germany. About 12.000 database records with accurate coordinates

• Large database of timezones and daylight saving times for a lot of countries and the former duch colonies. Daylight Saving Time for European countries already in the database up to the year 2021

• Check for right input by means op "check-lamp". When the lamp is green, you are ok and can continue with your calculations.

• Input birth time up to 0,1 second for very precise horoscopes.

• Input and storage of city coordinates up to 0,1 second of arc for very precise horoscopes.

• Prominence: the more close a planet is to the Midheaven, the more prominent it is in the horoscope. A list will be made of the prominence of all planets in descending order.

• Planet valuation. According to the schemes of the famous dutch astrologer Cornelis Gorter, planets are valuated from -5 to +5 according to its position in the signs. A list will be made of every planet"s valuation.

• Decanates. According to the most used decanate division (by triplicity) a list is made of the decanate of each planet in the horoscope.

• Navamshas. The whole zodiak is divided in little areas of each 3 1/3 degree, starting from zero Aries. Each area is called a Navamsha. A list is made of every Navamsha the horoscope's planet is in.

• Exaltation, Fall. From the Ancients there are known degrees in which each planets has its Exaltation of Fall. The program calculates these positions with a 1 degree orb for each planet. For example the Sun is exalted in the 19th degree of Aries, etc..When the Sun is within 1 degree orb of this place, it is noted on the list.

• You can define up to 22 aspects yourself with each a unique name, orb and defined degree. These self-defined aspect are dealt with in the radix horoscope as well as in the progressions.

• You can now work with Geocentric coordinates. Normally you work with Geographical coordinates.

• The Moon's parallax can be calculated up to 0,1 second of arc precision in Right Ascension, Lattitude, Longitude and Declination. It will show in the radix horoscope as well as in progressions.

• You can choose from 12 defined Arabic Points and choose to let them part of the radix aspects or to let them participate in the progressive horoscope and the progressions to date.

Extra characteristics: Progressive horoscope

• You can make progressions according to Cornelis Gorters theory: 1 true Solar Day = 1 Tropical Year. This is very precise and to my knowledge th ONLY theory of progressions which follows the true movements in the Solar System.

• Sun Ingress. You say in which sign the Sun is to ingress. Up to 0,5 seconds of arc the position of the Sun is calculated and the horoscope is calculated for this event for the place you have set.

• Solar Return Horoscope. For any given year the Solar Return is calculated for any horoscope. With a precision to 0,5 seconds of arc to Sun is calculated and the horoscope for the place set.

• Lunar Return Horoscope. For any given year the Lunar Return is calculated for any horoscope. With a precision to 0,5 seconds of arc (from 1950 to 2050) the Moon's position is recalculated the the desired year.

• New Moon Horoscope. For any desired year, the conjunction of the Sun and Moon is calculated up to a difference of  0,5 seconds of arc (1950 to 2050). From this moment the horoscope is calculated for the place set in the beginning. In other years outside 1950-2050 the precision is a bit less, see the precision table at the end

• Exclude the Part Of Fortune from progressions.With an option in the Progressions Options page you can exclude or include the Part Of Fortune in the progressive horoscope and the progressions to date

• When you use Transits, you can set which planets participate in the Transit directions.

Extra characteristics: 

• You can define the colors on the main screen

• Correction of wrong input is possible everywhere

• Old horoscope data from the program Newcomb-V1 is possible by import option

• Use of a special field "theme" to identify a horoscope. You can use the following themes: family, events, countries, crime, music, mystics, politics, private, sport, friends, worldsituation and other

• Extra memo-field for free text you want to give to a horoscope.

• Maintainance of the horoscope database included removal of old horoscope records

• Output to the printer through nice reports which you can also transform into formats like TXT, QRP, HTM or CSV

• Graphical division of planets over the signs, elements and polarities. You can view these divisions in the pie-diagram of a bar-diagram. Each division can be exported to several graphical formats like JPEG, WMF, JPG,etc.

• Graphical views of the radix and progressive positions, see the screens below for explanation. You can graphically display progressive aspects by setting the desired aspect and the desired radix and/or progressive planets. Period of max. 30 progressive years.

• Graphical views of progressive longitude velocities. You can display one or more progressive planets. You can clearly identify Retrograde periods, Stationary times and Prograde movements. Exemples below. Period of max. 30 progressive years.

• Graphical views of radix and/or progressive Declinations for any planet. You can clearly identify periods of parallels. Period of max. 30 progressive years.

• Correction of the horoscope with Placidus and KOCH houses. You can now make the correction, save the corrected horoscope and work with it right on.

• List of Fixed Stars with Longitude and Declination up to 0,1 second of arc.

• Very extensive and accurate astronomical calculations in table format or in a report.

• Input for the progressive horoscope in very handy separate little windows.

Exemples.

2) Graphical view of the progressive velocity of the Moon. You can display one or more planets by checking the planets name in de check box.

now we have the velocities of Uranus(blue) and Pluto(brown) together:

Above you see the progressive velocity of Uranus in the period 2010 to 2030 for a certain progresive horoscope. The scale is now very detailed. You can clearly see here that Uranus will be Retrograde in the year 2021, because its velociy will be native by then.
Pluto is also getting slower and slower, but he stays prograde.

Every planet has its own color which is in accord with his astrological traditional color.

You can combine such a graph with a positional graph and then you see in a minute the maximum attainable position for a planet. (and also where a planet will never go.....)

In the graph above you see the combined positional graph of Uranus in the same period. You can clearly see the maximum position that Uranus will reach around 2021, which is about 131°39'54" which is 11°39'54" Leo. Now you can make some conclusions. For example Uranus square to Moon's node on 13.05.23 Scorpio will never be completed because Uranus will only reach 11.39.54. This is important to know when you prepare your directions!

3. Graphical overview of declinations 

You can set the scale with the maximum and minimum sliders.

Period of validity and accuracy of the calculations.

On basis van the used theories of planetary calcultations, the Lunar Theory, theories of nutation and precession and my own 462 tests and comparisons with the most modern ephemeris, the following table is constructed in which you can see the validty of the calculations.

In the table below you will find accuracies in seconds of arc per planet for each period of time.

Node the good accuracy for the Moon, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto in the time periode +1900 to +2100.

Striking is the lack of accuracy for Pluto in the period +1700 to +1885. After 1885 to about +2099 the mean accuracy for Pluto is about 0,5 second of arc in Longitude.
Before +1700 and after+2099 there is no good accuracy for Pluto's longitude. This is due to the used theories. No better theories could be found at this time.
This will tremendously change in version-3 because the new developed theory from the Bureau Des Longitudes will give accuracies of about 0,05 seconds of arc for the very long period -2500 to +2500. I will incorporate this new theory in version-3.

The true Lunar Node is given to about 1'10" accuracy. The cause for this is that not all correction terms were used for the change to mean lunar node to true lunar node. This was done because Newcomb-V1 was developped in Pascal-7 with limited computer memory. In version-3 accuracy will be given to about 0,1" using all of 30,000 correction terms from the Lunar Theory ELP2000B

Sidereal Time is calculated to 0,002 seconds due to very accurate formulas for the Mean and Appaent Sidereal Time and nutation to about 0,002". In the program the Sidereal Time is given to 0,01 sec. Related to this are the accuracies for the house cusps. They are about 15 times the accuracy of the Sidereal Time, so globally house cusps are accurate to 0,15 seconds of arc. Fast rising signs (like Pisces and Aries) will show about 0,6 seconds of arc accuracy.

The value of Delta-T (this is the amount in seconds of time you must add to the GMT to have ET) is determined with about 1 to 2 seconds between the years 1900 and 2010. After 2010 you must specify Delta-T yourself in an inputbox.
This is also true in the period +1600 to +1900.
For the time period -2000 to +1600 Delta-T is caculated using historical formulas.

Hereunder you will see an attachment that you can fill in. These data are for the registration in the program you will receive. You will see these data in the program when you activate the registration.

On basis of this information you will get a unique registration number with which you can always use the help-service for the case you should encounter problems in the program.

Pleaase send the attacment to Newcomb Services, Mr. J. Ligteneigen, Waterleliestraat 20, 1338 TK Almere - Holland

The program Newcomb-V2 costs € 95,46 (incl. VAT). Costs for the manual and shipping are  € 4,54 (incl. VAT). Het total amount of € 100,00 can be paid on the dutch POSTBANK for IBAN number NL71 PSTB 0005 3592 62 for the account of Mr  J. Ligteneigen in Almere.
BIC code is PSTBNL21.
Mention "Newcomb-V2" in the remarks. Within 4 working days after payment the program on CD and the 61 pages manual will be sent to your address.

In the manual there is very clear and easy to use installation instruction for the program. It will take you only 2 miutes to install and you are ready to go.

For problems and/or questions about the program Newcomb-V2 you can always reach me by  e-mail. Use jligteneigen@hetnet.nl  Your suggestions will surely be considered if they are useful to the program. Future versions of the program might contain your suggestions as is done in practice for the progressions according to Cornelis Gorter.

Buying the program Newcomb-V2 does not give you any entitlements to astrological counseling by Mr. J. Ligteneigen

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