Real Time Clock and Animation
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This chapter describes how to use Solar Fire’s real time astrological clock, and how to animate charts and page displays by running or stepping them forward and backward through time. This module also allows the one-step construction of biwheels, triwheels and quadriwheels showing transits, progressions and directions around natal chart.
Some things that can be done in this module are as follows.
•Display a real time astrological clock for the current location
•Display a real time astrological clock for any other location and timezone
•Display multiple real time clocks
•Display a natal chart ready to step forward or backward in time
•Display a progressed or directed chart ready to step forward or backward in time
•View pop-up interpretations of a chart (see Viewing Interpretations)
•Display and operate a dial pointer (see Using Dials and Pointers)
•Display a biwheel with a natal chart (or radix chart) on the inner ring, and current transits on the outer ring, ready to step forward or backward in time
•Display a triwheel with a natal chart (or radix chart), current secondary progressions and transits, ready to step forward or backward in time
•Display a quadriwheel with a natal chart (or radix chart), current secondary progressions, solar arc directions and transits, ready to step forward or backward in time
•Display other combinations of fixed and dynamic charts in uni, bi, tri and quadriwheels
•Display any astrological page ready to step forward and backward in time
•Run, step or jump the charts or pages through time
These options are described more fully below.
Note that the wheel styles and other color options used in this module are always the same as those that are in effect on the View Chart screen, and can be altered by using a right hand mouse click somewhere over the display to bring up the Chart Options menu.