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Solar Fire is a state-of-the-art astrology software package for Windows on a PC and for Mac desktop and laptop computers.

Solar Fire is intuitive, easy-to-use yet powerful calculation software, designed for both novice and expert astrologers alike, and it provides easy access to high-quality chart production using either a Windows-based PC or a Mac desktop computer.

Solar Fire uses the latest Swiss Ephemeris and ACS Atlas files, plus you can exchange chart files between Solar Fire and Nova Chartwheels.

Getting started – new users

•Check out A GUIDED TOUR of Solar Fire to familiarize yourself with the basics of the program.

•Study all the links in the Help and Support topic – plenty of help is available!
 

Getting started – users upgrading from Solar Fire 9

•Have a look at Changes from Version 9.x to Version X for a quick summary of what's new.

 

 

 

About the creation of Solar Fire

In 1994, Astrolabe, Inc., authors of Nova, Chartwheels and other programs for DOS, became publishers of Solar Fire and provided development and technical assistance in subsequent versions of the program. In 2014, Astrolabe purchased Solar Fire, at that time at version 9. Esoteric Technologies authored the original Solar Fire astrology software program in 1992 as well as the subsequent versions through version 9.

Solar Fire's Team:

Doug Kellogg is the head of the Translation Team for Solar Fire X and did most of the "heavy lifting" of translating Solar Fire 9 from Visual Basic into a more modern and cohesive programming language. He took on the role of joint Solar Fire programmer in 2015. His programs AstroStar I and AstroStar II were sold by Astrolabe in the 1980s.

Raymond White is the head of Technical Services for Solar Fire X. He is Astrolabe's Chief Programmer and, in 2015, took on the role of joint Solar Fire programmer.

Natalie Loh is the General Fixer for Solar Fire X. She joined Astrolabe in 2025 as the third joint Solar Fire programmer, with particular expertise on a Mac. We are indebted to her hard work and dedication during the several months prior to the Solar Fire X release, as it would not have been possible without her!

Madalyn Hillis-Dineen and Roy Gillett contributed in the writing and rewriting of the Solar Fire manual, especially in the complete overhaul of the documentation for the new and greatly improved Solar Maps, and provided user-oriented feedback that improved Solar Fire.

Steve Pincus assisted with Solar Fire testing in many ways, including tracking bugs and testing fixes during development.

Gary Christen, Astrolabe's president, provided vision and guidance, as well as new techniques and outstanding graphics for Solar Fire X.

 

Cover artwork by Gianna Masella.

Stephanie Johnson, Graham Dawson, and Neville Lang contributed to earlier versions of Solar Fire.

 

Solar Fire X by Astrolabe Inc    Copyright © All rights reserved.