Specialized Ephemerides

Contents:

In Memoriam, Neil F. Michelsen, 1931-1990
Introduction
Summary of special features
A brief look at the sidereal zodiac, by James Eshelman, with Kenneth Irving
Use of the ephemeris

The ephemeris, 2001-2025, one month per page.

Comment: Positions based on the Fagan/Bradley Ayanamsha popular in the US. In the introductory pages, Eshelman & Irving tell how the exact start of the zodiac (zero degrees Aries) was determined between 1944 & 1957 by Cyril Fagan & Donald Bradley. This was largely the result of experimentation with solar & lunar returns & accounts for some of the more esoteric calculations in this book. Students of Vedic astrology will note the resulting ayanamsha was, as of January 1, 2001, 53 minutes, 2 seconds behind the tradtional Lahiri, which was determined by different means.

Daily features:

• Daily Solar longitude, motion, Right Ascension & declination
• Lunar position given at midnight & noon: longitude, Right Ascension, declination, net 12 hour motion
• Daily longitude, Right Ascension & declination for Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune & Pluto
• True Node, ASSI (Apparent Sidereal Solar Increment), SSRY (Sidereal Solar Return Year), SVP on Aldebaran, all given daily
• Lunar ingresses, planetary ingresses, also stations

• Julian day, Mean Node, Obliquity, Delta T, Nutation

Starcrafts Publishing, unpaginated, 308 pages, oversize format.

Contents:

In Memoriam, Neil Michelsen, 1931-1990
Ephemeris construction & use
Introduction, by Robert Hand
Bibliography

The ephemeris pages

Comment: Two months per page. For Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars, longitudes & latitudes are given daily. In a heliocentric ephemeris, there is no Sun (the Earth always being exactly opposite where the Sun would normally be found) and there is no moon nor lunar nodes, since, from the Sun, all planetary moons are insignificant.

For Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune & Pluto, longitudes & latitudes are given every five days. There are no retrogrades, since, from the Sun's point of view, retrogrades cannot exist.

On the first of every month are given Radius Vectors, which is the distance of each planet from the Sun, expressed in Astronomical Units, where one AU = the Earth's mean orbital distance. A small "p" or "a" next to the value indicates the planet reaches Aphelion or Perihelion sometime during that month.

On the first of every other month, six times a year, planetary nodal positions are given. These move very slowly. Mercury's node, the fastest of all the planets, will move 36 minutes of one degree over the 50 years of this book.

There is also a full aspectarian. Set in GMT, but in a non-standard AM / PM format, which I think unfortunate, since we normally associate AM / PM with local clock time.

Rob Hand's introduction is a brief survey of heliocentric astrology, with an emphasis on the works of T. Patrick Davis.

See a sample page here.

Starcrafts Publishing, 308 pages, oversize.

Contents:

Introductory materials:
Neil F. Michelsen, 1931-1990
Books by Neil F. Michelsen
The Uranian Transneptunes
A Brief Introduction to Uranian Astrology, by Maria Kay Simms

The Ephemeris, 1900-2050 at Midnight, positions given every five days.

Comment:

This is the successor to a number of previous Transeptunian ephemerides which Michelsen either published or had a hand in arranging for publication, going back to 1978 & Uranian Publications in Franksville, WI. In her introduction, Simms says Michelsen's final calculations (circa 1990) were about 1' (one minute of one degree) different from earlier calculations. With bodies that struggle to move more than six minutes a day, this is slight.

Simm's one-page Introduction is a good overview of the subject, touching on calculation, the actual existence of the TNP's (well, they just don't, alas), major developments in what is officially termed The Hamburg School, and other sundry matters.

The ephemeris itself is printed in good, clear print. You will note the dates of stations are given at the very bottom of the page. For a pdf at 100%, go here.

ACS, 156 pages.

Contents:

Welcome, from Maria Kay Simms (publisher)
Introduction, by Roger Hutcheon

The ephemeris pages

About Rique Pottenger

Comment: This is based on the previous work of Neil Michelsen. The book has been expanded to include midpoints to Ceres. This is in keeping with the recent publication of The New American Ephemeris 2007-2020, where Ceres has been inserted between Mars and Jupiter. This had been published (by ACS) in five year intervals, ending in 2005.

See a sample page here. Be sure & hit the magnifier, as it will initially look small.

Starcrafts, 185 pages, oversize.

Contents:

General information about the tables

Part 1: Potpourri
Do we know where the planets really are?
How many different kinds of stations can a planet have?
What causes the seasons?

Part 2: The sun is not the center of the solar system!
Center of mass distance from the sun's center & aspects to heliocentric Jupiter

Part 3: Eclipses
Tables: Solar & lunar eclipses 1700-2050
Solar & lunar eclipses in zodiacal order, 1700-2050
Solar annular & total eclipses in sequence by maximum duration

Part 4: Planetary distances
Planetary distances from the sun
Earth perihelion/aphelion 1837-2020
Mars & the outer planets in perihelion & aphelion, 1700-2050
Moon distance from the Earth, 1900-2020

Part 5: Ingresses
Chiron Ingresses, 1900-2020
Ceres Ingresses, 1900-2020
Pallas Ingresses, 1900-2020
Vesta Ingresses, 1900-2020
Pluto ingresses, 501 BC - 2100
Neptune ingresses, 501 BC - 2100
Uranus ingresses, 501 BC - 2100
Saturn ingresses, 501 BC - 2100
Jupiter ingresses, 501 BC - 2100

Part 6: Outer planet phenomena
Outer planet conjunctions 501 BC - 2100
Jupiter through Pluto aspects: 0, 45, 90, 120, 135, 180, 1700-2050
Mars through Pluto zero declination, 1700-2050

Part 7: Planetary stations
Planetary stations in longitude, 1700-2050

Part 8: Planetary clusters
Five or more planets within 20 degrees of arc, 1700-2050

Part 9: Moon phases
The eight phases of the moon, 1900-2020

Part 10: High energy solar system phenomena
Yearly mean sunspot numbers, 1700-1988
Daily sunspot numbers, 1930-1989
Major magnetic storms: Ap* 1932-1989 summary
Major magnetic storms: Ap* 1932-1989
Major magnetic storms: Ap* 1932-1989 by severity

Part 11: Planetary mandalas
Solar system Barycenter plots at 20 year intervals, 1540-2040
Geocentric planetary orbits showing retrograde motion
Planetary mandalas using the major plansts
One planet as viewed from another
Planetary mandalas involving the asteroids
Planetary mandalas involving the Uranian planets

Part 12: Appendix
Planetary patterns & the Dow Jones Industrial Average

Comment: Michelsen's last book, an interesting compilation of tables & articles, by himself and his associates. The cover says, "Third Edition", but the book appears to be identical to the second revised edition of 1995.

Starcrafts Publishing, 249 pages.

For both Lilith & Lulu, positions given every ten days. For each, also includes instructions for use. As the ephemeris was computed based on Lilith/Sun conjunctions, there is a list of dates of Lilith/Sun conjunctions. This is also true of Lulu, where dates of Lulu/Sun are given. Lilith is a secondary moon of the earth.

In the introduction by Thyrza Escobar:

Back in the 1930's my list of noted correlations with Lilith contained numerous "dangers" - venomous bites & stings, food poisoning of a serious nature and some dangerous infections. A couple of miscarriages, but not one fatality, although there were two or three miscarriages.

There are no interpretative suggestions for Lulu, or even any hint of what it is. Going by the positions, it is a third moon of the earth, it orbits once every seven months or so.

See a sample page here.

AFA, oversize, 38 pages.