Solar Fire Asteroid Add-on
Now, besides the 1,000 Swiss-Ephemeris-accurate asteroids already included in Solar Fire, you can select from over 10,000 more. The Asteroid Add-on makes it simple to install whatever asteroids you want, whenever you want – all 10,000, the 7,500 that are named, or any individuals that interest you. You can also load them by any of 29 topic groupings, including cities and countries, plants and animals, science and transport, occupations, mythology and more. There is also a set of relationship asteroids, plus an article explaining their meanings.
You can use these asteroids just like the others in Solar Fire’s wheels and pages, transit/progression listings, graphic ephemerides, ephemeris tables, and detailed lists of the asteroid positions and aspects in a chart. You can also export the asteroid data for one or more charts into plain text files for use in other programs like spreadsheets and word processors.
Covering the years A.D. 1500-2100, this massive collection requires about 510Mb of disk space for a full installation. The Add-on tells you how much disk space you need for the asteroids you select, and it automatically installs your selected asteroids in their proper place in Solar Fire. You need Solar Fire Gold (v6) through 9, and can get the Add-on by CD or download.
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Requirements:
- Solar Fire v6 or higher.
- About 510MB on your hard disk drive if you wish to install the entire collection.
Instructions for the Asteroid Add-On:
When you install the Asteroid Add-On, you should choose to add everything: *Asteroid Add ONS Groups*
- To select asteroids from the groups you chose to view in Solar Fire, go to "Chart Options"
- Select "Displayed User-Defined Points"
- In the User-Defined points File Management dialog box, select asteroid.ptu and click Edit OR Create a new ptu file such as myasteroids.ptu and click Edit
- The User-Defined Points Selection dialog box will open.
- On the right, make sure Asteroid is checked and then click on "Select File" to open the Asteroids File Management Dialog Box.
- In the Asteroids dialog box, you can select the Asteroid Group you want to select asteroids from by clicking select. Those asteroids will now appear under Available Points and you can add them to your User Defined points selection.
- To change the Asteroids in your Asteroid Reports, go to Chart Options
- Select "Files"
- Select Asteroid File and select the Asteroid Group you want as a default
- Hit Select