Astrolabe Links and References
The amount of material about astrolabes on the web has grown significantly in the last few years. Some of the best sites are listed below.
Astrolabe: An ancient instrument employed for measuring the angular position of Sun and stars, used also to project the celestial sphere on the plane of the equator.
Astrolabe Tool for recording astrological calculations.
Astrologer A professional who studies the positions and aspects of celestial bodies in the belief that they have an influence of the course of natural earthly occurrences and human ...
Astrolabe. A mechanical device, predecessor to the sextant, whereby mariners determined the time of day by the Sun, of the night by the stars, and the height and depth of mountains and valleys.
Astrolabe Free charts & more Star Signs Astrology Zine
Mountain Astrologer Chiron: A Personal Story by Martin Lass
Astrology for Beginners Star Watch Astrology Calendar ...
ASTROLABE
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Astrology Freeware for Macintosh only - nice graphics and many features.
Fourteenth Century Astrolabe for measuring the altitude of celestial objects ...
Two devices used to study the stars, the astrolabe and zij, were not invented by the Arabs though they can be credited with developing and perfecting them.
The forerunners to the mul Apin were various astrolabes and star lists, drawn to show which stars were visible in the sky at the different seasons of the year.
Accurate and workable ones available are the Complete Planetary Ephemeris, the Astrolabe ephemeris, Die Deutsche Ephemeriden, Golgge or Metz, ...
I am currently working on an AstroPsychology Report Writer with Astrolabe in Massachusetts. Astrolabe is doing the programming, and I am designing the report and writing the interpretations.
By 1986, commercial programs included Blue*Star from Matrix, CCRS and Nova from Astrolabe, and Graphic Astrology for Macintosh from Time Cycles Research.
Another site gives a clear astronomical explanation and Keith Powell's site has Java Applet of an Astrolabe which can be used to show the effects of precession (by advancing the centuries, the shifting of the stars with relation to the pole, ...
Star maps were plotted correctly, constellations were formed, and astrolabes, or lists of stars were made. Omens were very important to the Assyrians and the priests-astrologers-astronomers would present their omens to the courts often.
These are recorded on tablets known as "astrolabes", the earliest of these tablets dating around BC 1100. By this, we know that the Babylonians had knowledge of the sun's motion, phases of the moon and periodicities of certain planets.
Look up the date you're thinking of, look at the column for the Moon, scroll down to the date in question, and you'll see the shifting of the signs from one to the next.
other resources: astrodienst, cafe astrology, astrolabe ...
 See also: Planet, Sun, Astrology, Astrologer, Degree
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