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This download area contains the Free Edition of the SWISS EPHEMERIS. About the Swiss Ephemeris: Swiss Ephemeris is a software toolbox for programmers of astrological software. It is of little use for a non-programmer The test programs SWETEST.EXE and SWEWIN.EXE come with it as demonstration programs for programmers to show them how they can call the SE functions. swetest.exe can be used to compute complete natal horoscopes as textual output. Programmers all over the world have started to build SE into their software. SE ist built according to the highest standards of precision available in astronomical data. It is able to reproduce the ephemeris data in astronomical standard books up to the last printed digit. Detailed information is available at http://www.astro.com/swisseph or in the documentation files included in the distribution. Description of files: ===================== While we have made available many single files, so that they can be viewed directly in a browser, it is much more convenient to download the files in '.zip' or '.gz' format. Except for the single asteroid files, all files in this area available in one of the 'zip' or 'gz' archives and should be downloaded in the archived form for higher speed. LICENSE.TXT The Swiss Ephemeris is published currently under GPL, and alternatively under Swiss Ephemeris Professional License, You must read and accept the license before you download any files. swe_unix_src_1.74.tar.gz The release of the Swiss Ephemeris source code. It has currently been tested on Linux and Windows 2003. A simple Makefile to create a Unix library is included. The unix-readable of the doc directory are also included. The release number is sometimes changing frequently when we are in an active development phase. Sometimes several releases will be available at the same time. It is usually best to take the one with the highest release number. Release 1.61 was the last one which contained 16-bit support. It is permanently archived in subdirectory sweph161. Release 1.67 was the last with the old IAU precission model 1976 (Lieske), old nutation model 1980 (Wahr). It is preserved in swe_unix_src_1.67.tar.gz and sweph_1.67.zip sweph.zip The complete Swiss Ephemeris package for Windows (32bit), except the ephemeris data files. See online documentation at http://www.astro.com/swisseph

or in the doc directory for more details. Small sample programs and build-projects are included for - Visual C++ .net 2003 - Visual Basic 5.0 - Delphi 32-bit Note for release 1.67 and later: Visual Basic files have not been updated and tested, as we currently do not possess a copy of VB running on Windows 2003. swephzip.txt overview of content of the sweph.zip package src/* unpacked source archive, identical to content of archive file above, with the highest release number. doc/* swisseph.doc Feature Documentation, MS Word format swephprg.doc Programmer's Documentation, MS Word format [there are also PDF and HTML versions of these files] graphical labels (Corel Draw 7.0 and GIF versions) All files are also contained in the swe_src_..gz archive. ephe Directory with binary ephemeris files.

programs A directory containing sample and utility programs for Windows: swewin32.zip zipped archive containing swewin.exe. This is a small Windows application which computes complete horoscopes, including houses and asteroids. It runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP swetest.exe executable Swiss Ephemeris program. This is a 32-bit Console mode application. To get information about the many features of this program, run swetest -? > out.txt and print the file out.txt, or view it with your text editor. This is just a sample to demonstrate the precision of the ephemeris, and to show the typical use of a few cally. swetest.zip zipped version of swetest.exe for faster download. unzip.exe A Windows utility to unzip .ZIP files. If you have WinZip on your system, just double click on the the downloaded ZIP files and Winzip will take care of unzipping. Otherwise you can use unzip.exe: open a command (DOS) Windows, type the command: unzip sweph.zip and the zip-archive will be unpacked in a local directory named 'sweph'. It is possible to use SWEWIN and SWETEST without the ephemeris files. If the program finds no ephemeris files, it uses the builtin analytical ephemeris which provides "only" a precision of 0.1 arc seconds for the planets and 3" for the Moon. No asteroids will be available, and no barycentric option can be used. The SWISS EPHEMERIS can be licensed by programmers to include this

calculation engine in their software. More information is found at http://www.astro.com/swisseph/ Depending on your application the free edition under the Public License may apply, or you may have to acquire a professional license for a fee. CDROM distribution: =================== There is no longer any CDROM. All parts of SE are available here in the download area. Legal restrictions ================== Read LICENSE.TXT Mailing list ============ We maintain a mailing list which we use to send developers information about updates, bugs etc. If you want to have your name added to this mailing list, please visit groups.yahoo.com/swisseph Feedback ======== We welcome any suggestions and comments you may have about the Swiss Ephemeris. Please email to swisseph@groups.yahoo.com If you want your feedback distributed to all members of the swisseph mailing list, please subscribe to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/swisseph/

Java-Version: ============= Thomas Mack has ported the Swiss Ephemeris library to Java. His work can be found at: http://www.th-mack.de/international/download/ If you use it for commercial or for non-open-source purposes, please be aware that GNU Public License of Swiss Ephemeris also applies for the Java version, besides any additional requirements which may be defined by Thomas Mack. Numerical Integrator ==================== the numerical integrator to prepare swisss ephemeris files is not in a state fit for publication. There is a file numint.tar.gz which contains all the parts needed for it, so that those who want to look can have a look at it. The permission to use it is currently 'read source code' only. Directory contrib ================= It contains open source code and applications using the Swiss Ephemeris. See the reeadme file in directory contrib for more details.