The Skylendar Handbook

Christophe Gros

Revision 11 (15/3/2025)

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Skylendar is a portable (Windows/Linux) and modern design astrology program. It includes a state of the art interface, numerous charts with numerous options, a powerful data/restrictions sets management, multithreading computing, SQL database searching/loading/saving interface and a web server mode.

Skylendar has been designed as the successor of the popular but old Astrolog software. Skylendar proposes many charts from astrolog, plus many new features.


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Using Skylendar
Overview
Data Edition
Data Set Edition
Searching for a Data Set
Searching by Values
Countries Edition
SKIF files management
The skif.pl utility
Siblings
Dump Values
Chart Exportation
Chart Loading/Saving
SQL Statement
Direct values retrieval
Examples
The Standard Wheel Chart
The X point
Planets Rank
The Standard Text List Chart
The Aspects Scan List Chart
Active lines
Number of displayed lines
Data Dump
The Moon void of course
Current aspects
Local Horizon Chart
Objects List
Ephemeris
Astro-Graph
Squared Chart
Solar System Chart
Tarots Spreads
Dates of Primary Directions
Gauquelin's Sectors
House Positions
Batch Chart
Chart Parameters
The Skydmin utility
Extra Objects
Arabic Parts
Available Stars
aDate
More Skylendar features
3. Command Reference
The main Skylendar window
The File Menu
The Display Menu
The Chart Menu
The Data Menu
The Windows Menu
The Settings Menu
The Help Menu
4. Developer's Guide to Skylendar
5. Questions and Answers
6. Command-line Options
7. Credits and License
A. Installation
How to obtain Skylendar
Requirements
Compilation and Installation
Configuration

List of Tables

2.1. Date Systems
2.2.