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Welcome to Aquila

Aquila is a professional-grade astrological research desktop application that generates precise tables of celestial events over time spans ranging from days to millennia. A highly optimized search engine scans centuries of astronomical data in seconds, so you spend your time interpreting events rather than waiting on event generation.

Organize your research in workspaces, generate any of 42 study types (41 event-generator studies plus the Timeline Study) to produce focused event tables, and bring those results together in a Timeline Study to see the bigger picture across an entire line of inquiry.

What You Can Do with Aquila​

Aquila gives you a complete toolkit for surveying the celestial sphere across any time range you choose:

  • Organize research in workspaces: Dedicate a workspace to a client, a financial market, a nation, or a creative project, and keep every related study together in a single .aquila file.
  • Generate mundane events: Use Mundane Aspects, Mundane Parallels, Mundane Stations, Lunar Phases, and similar studies to track celestial events between transiting bodies, without reference to a natal record.
  • Detect aspect patterns: Find every Grand Trine, T-Square, Yod, and Stellium that forms across your chosen date range.
  • Track planetary cycles: Survey Inferior Planetary Cycles, Superior Planetary Cycles, Retrograde Cycles, and Sign Ingresses to map the long-term motion of every planet.
  • Examine declination and longitude: Use Latitude Extrema, Speed Extrema, Solar Limit Transits, Mundane Arcs, Maximum Elongations, Heliacal Phenomena, and Nodal Transits to study every dimension of celestial motion.
  • Survey eclipses: Generate Solar Eclipses, Lunar Eclipses, and the corresponding Solar Eclipse Hotspots and Lunar Eclipse Hotspots studies that target user-defined critical degrees.
  • Generate transit and activation studies: Bring a natal record into play with Transiting Aspects, House Ingresses, Aspect Activations, Conjunction Activations, Station Activations, and the full family of transit studies.
  • Refine results with filter scripts: Author optional C# expressions in the Event Filter Editor to keep only the events that match precise criteria.
  • Aggregate findings in a Timeline Study: Combine events from any selection of generator studies into a single chronological view using a Timeline Study.
  • Document and share events: Copy events as Markdown for note-taking apps, copy events as tab-delimited text for spreadsheets, or export to CSV for archival or further analysis.
  • Manage reference data: Maintain locations and natal records in the Locations Editor and Natal Records Editor, and set application-wide and workspace-wide defaults in the Default Settings Editor.

Getting Help​