Open a Chart
Open a new Mundane, Natal, or Transit chart window from the Charts menu or the toolbar.
Mundane Chart
The chart type that plots the sky over a chosen place at a chosen moment, with no natal reference.
Natal Chart
The chart type that plots the sky at the moment and place recorded in a saved natal record.
Transit Chart
The chart type that plots a moving sky against a fixed natal record, as two point sets on one band with the aspects matched between them.
Chart Window
The shared, non-modal window that hosts all three Compass chart types, with a settings column on the left and the wheel on the right.
Chart Window Toolbar
The pair of settings launcher buttons at the top left of a chart window.
Chart Display Options
The strip beneath the wheel carrying the coordinate format and the two overlay checkboxes for this chart window alone.
Chart Wheel
The drawn wheel itself, with the zodiac band, the diurnal angles, the house cusps, the body glyphs, and the aspect chords between them.
Chart Time Navigation
The band above the wheel that steps a chart through time or jumps it straight to a date and time.
Chart Wheel Context Menu
Right-click a body glyph or an aspect chord on the wheel to copy its text to the clipboard.
Chart Calculation Messages
The banner above the wheel that reports errors and notices from the calculation behind the drawing.