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I am happy to announce that Janus 3.0 now has improved accuracy for planetary positions for ancient dates. The update achieves this greater precision by using the CCRS'98 algorithms instead of the less precise CCRS'92 algorithms. Click here for the free Janus 3.0 update The New Jyotish Studio 3.0 Dancing Moon, Inc. has just about completed work on the latest version of Goravani Jyotish, now to be called Jyotish Studio 3.0. It will run under Windows (95 through XP) and the Mac, and will retail for his previous price of $295. The software is a very major upgrade -- years in the making. Over half of the program has been re-written and recompiled in C, to run much faster. The user-interface is also completely new, and obeys all standard Windows conventions (e.g. right-click options, resizeable windows, remembers last windows size and position, multiple windows and charts open at once, etc.). Each major type of function can now be in its own window, e.g. a separate window for charts, for shad bala tables, for Varshaphal, etc. You can arrange the windows on your screen any way you want, and save the placements as a style to re-use at any time. You have complete control over colors throughout the program, as well as the ability to add backgrounds to charts (e.g. Spanish tile, fades, stained glass), and create beautiful artistic chart wheels. The program allows you to enter a set of important dates/events for each chart, and can integrate this event list with your dasha listing. Dasas can be viewed at up to 8 levels, you can merge different dasa methods into one list, and also merge different people's dasas into one list. Parashari Conditional Dasas have also been added. One great new strength is a built-in classical Vedic book collection, including BPHS, Saravali, Jaimini Sutras, Muhurta Chintamani, Jataka Parijata, Laghu Parashari Siddhant, and a couple of other texts. This set of books can be searched with Boolean searches (this AND that), multi word searches, and more. The research tools are also much more powerful. Instead of being limited to searching 20 charts for factors at a time, you can now search hundreds of charts at lightning speed for the factors you're interested in. Right-clicking on a planet wil pop-up an options window that allows you to see the attributes of the planet, read interpretations for the planet, and more. You have complete control of what symbol or image is used to represent each point. The president and programmer of Dancing Moon, Inc., Das Goravani has detailed many more features than I can cover in this brief first look. I can't wait to receive the forthcoming beta test version. Jyotish Studio promises to be a beautiful and powerful Vedic program. Neat Stuff 1 WinStars -- not to be confused with the astrology program Win*Star -- is a complete (and free) planetarium program, showing you the appearance of the sky, as seen from anywhere on Earth, for any date. With a click of the mouse, it's possible to have various information about all objects displaying by the program. Features : 10,000 stars (BSC5 catalogue) in the basic version and more than 2,500,000 stars by downloading Sky2000 and Tycho2 catalogues, more than 10,000 deep sky objects - star clusters, nebulae, galaxies (SAC catalogue), smooth real time navigation with the mouse, displays the accurate position of the Sun, the Moon, the major planets, comets and asteroids, position of the major planetary satellites can be displayed on the map, realistic views of the planets, the Moon, the phases of Mercury and Venus, the horizon and objects of deep sky, calculations of ephemeris, detailed information can be displayed about each object, drives the Meade LX200 (and compatible) telescope, Web resources are available : updated comets and asteroids' elements, pictures from DSS (Digitized Sky Survey) servers, visibility of artificial satellites... Requirements : Pentium 150 MHz or faster, Windows 9x/Me/NT4/2000 or XP, 32 MBytes RAM or more, 20 MBytes free space on the hard disk, video card 800x600 with 32768 colors (15 bits). a wheel mouse is recommended. For astrologers, one of WinStars best features is a very useful monthly ephemeris (in Universal Time) that shows significant astronomical events such as occultations, conjunctions (with true orbs),lunar phases, Sidereal Solar ingresses, meteor showers, elongations, and more. To get WinStars, Click Here Neat Stuff 2 -- Esoteric Astrological Rulerships Freeware A nifty little Windows program that enables you to see the traditional (or ancient), modern, esoteric and hierarchical sign rulerships and decanate rulerships at a glance. These include those rulerships which are described in the book Esoteric Astrology by A.A.Bailey, Publ. The Lucis Trust. Useful for students of Esoteric Astrology. Colourful and graphical. Run the downloaded file to self-extract the program. You will be prompted for a location to unzip it to. Click Here Discounts on Software Software discounts starting March 2002: When you purchase astrology software through me, you will get: 1. My free expert guidance in choosing the right program. 2. The best pricing distributors are allowed to offer. 3. Free U.S. shipping (and for some programs, free Express shipping Worldwide). 4. Additional benefits. E.g. I offer a free transit report program for purchasers of Sirius, over 60 beautiful extra artistic wheels for Solar Fire Gold, etc. 5. You are supporting my website, allowing me to continue posting astrology tutorials, software reviews, and much more. 6. Your software is fully registered to you and shipped to you directly from the manufacturer, with their full customer support as well as mine. To go to my secure astrology software order form, click here. You can support SoftStar News by: Telling others about our website. 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