AstroLite vs Ephemeris Dashboard

“AstroLite” helps keep track of days for Vedic rituals, fast, feast and festivals. This is a basic version of AstroPro published already. While AstroPro is mainly for amateurs and professionals in Vedic astrology, AstroLite is for general public those who are interested in following Vedic rituals in day-to-day life. Users can set any major city around the world and work with different key menu categories with its features discussed as follows. Home Screen: This provides current calendar date with Sunrise, Sunset, day’s star with its transition time, lunar month, tithi and year followed by any major festival events for the given city of choice. Users can navigate through days and months for the current year that gives corresponding Vedic almanac details as well as charts for planetary positions. Charts can be displayed under South or North Indian formats. One can quickly switch between these chart formats using the tool bar button as shown in the screen shots. Almanac: This section gives the almanac details for any given month that enables the user to quickly glance through the list of important festivals, days for rituals etc. This Vedic calendar is further supplemented with ephemeris data and table is provided in a separate section. This enables users to cast their own charts for any specific day and time of the month in the given year. In addition users also can generate a comprehensive list of festivals and important lunar days for the given year and city that helps users to plan respective Vedic ritual ahead of time. Help Help file provides a Vedic almanac glossary with brief writing on various keywords, terminology and legend used in different sections of this app. It is quite educational and people can quickly comprehend its significance with different computational logic used for the purpose. AstroLite is published in response to requests received and to help people living abroad to keep track of important days for Vedic rituals. We dedicate this app as a tribute to our late parents. With Best Compliments from Kaup Shenoy Associates.

Ephemeris Dashboard is a powerful, open-source Swiss Ephemeris calculator for astronomers, astrologers, and researchers. It provides precise planetary positions, house cusps, ayanamsa values, and fixed star data — all computed from the industry-standard Swiss Ephemeris library. FEATURES • Planetary Positions — Sun through Pluto, plus lunar nodes, Lilith, Chiron, and more. Ecliptic longitude, latitude, distance, and speed for any date in history or the future. • House Systems — Placidus, Koch, Equal, Whole Sign, Regiomontanus, Campanus, Porphyry, and many more. Cusps and angles (ASC/MC/ARMC/Vertex) computed for any location. • Ayanamsa — Lahiri, Raman, Krishnamurti, Fagan-Bradley, and 30+ additional ayanamsa systems for sidereal calculations. • Fixed Stars — Complete Sefstars catalog with positions and metadata. • Flexible Input — Set date/time, geographic coordinates, and altitude. Choose tropical or sidereal zodiac, geocentric or topocentric, heliocentric or barycentric frames. • Display Formats — View results in degrees-minutes-seconds, decimal degrees, or raw values. • Multiple Themes — Dark and light color schemes. • Export — Save calculation results for your records. • No Interpretation — Pure astronomical values. No horoscope readings, no AI-generated meanings. Just the numbers. • No Data Collection — Your privacy is absolute. No accounts, no analytics, no tracking. Everything runs locally on your device. • Open Source — Licensed under AGPL-3.0. Inspect the code, verify the calculations, contribute improvements. Built on the Swiss Ephemeris (swisseph), the same engine trusted by professional astrologers and astronomers worldwide for over 25 years. When ephemeris data files are available, positions are computed to sub-arcsecond precision. A built-in Moshier analytical fallback ensures the app works even without data files.