Notes: The explanations below are very brief and often quite technical because very often a problem occurred only in very rare circumstances on some computers with unusual settings. Very often improvements are typographical corrections, detection of the user making a selection that does not make sense (such as entering the name of a file that does not exist) or may involve very advanced features, such as, for example, creating an AstroSignature with complex combinations of AND and OR statemetns. Most corrections and improvements do not affect the basic functioning of the program. Some changes are improvements, such as improved daylight saving time tables because some countries changed their observance of DST in the current year, or new research has led us to revise a table. There are many subtle issues that can arise when using a program as versatile and complex as Kepler, and most situations would occur only under very specific situations that almost no customers are likely to encounter, but we have listed all problems reported for completeness. Some corrections and improvements are made from observations made during development of the next version of Kepler, and some corrections are problems encountered by users or suggestions made by users. The update to Kepler 7 will update your program with all of the corrections and improvements.

July 7, 2004: *Credit to Dadhichi Toth for interpretations in Chart Explorer added. *TriWheel Animation and AstroClock are now displayed in landscape so they are visible. *Non-English characters of intepretive reports viewed on screen on some computers with unusual language settings could cause problems which was fixed by displaying the report on the screen with the ANSI Windows character set.

July 12, 2004: *Installation of Mega Atlas not working on some computers. Problem was fixed. *Printing and Saving to File Transit Interpretations not working on some computers. Problem fixed.

July 13, 2004: *When customizing a wheel and selecting a graphic image, a message is now displayed immediately if the graphic image is not on disk so user knows the file name entered is not valid.

July 14, 2004: *Dates in Graphic Ephemeris before the year 1,000 A.D. sometimes slightly incorrect, and problem was fixed.

July 15, 2004: *Explanation of Culture and Creativity Treasure Map was improved. *Also, labels of planets at top of graphic ephemeris are positioned slightly better. *In data entry screen, February 29 when not a leap year is filtered out. *Also, if no printers are installed on the computer, a message is now displayed when the program starts so user knows that printing is impossible because there are no printers.

July 19, 2004: *DST tables were improved with recent changes in about 20 countries. *Also, the explanation of the Compatibilty Profile Scores was improved to better explain what the scores mean.

July 20, 2004: *Improvement to research and AstroSignatures to allow more complex ANDing and ORing of factors.

July 29, 2004: *Customizing a transit time to have both zodiac signs and midpoints can produce an error when the report is produced. Problem was fixed.

July 30, 2004: *Some transit text listings do not print right column in the column properly. Formatting was improved.

Aug 2, 2004: *Randall Roffe's Fixed Star Report did not run In Kepler 7. Problem was fixed. Wording of introductory sections of some fixed star listings was also improved.

Aug 6, 2004: *Very minor, almost trivial improvement: When customizing research AstroSignatures, a detection of the use selecting Previous after an OR statement was added so this sequence of lines (which does not make sense and very unlikely an user would ever enter it) added.

Aug 7, 2004: *In a progressed listing, the date for aspects when planet turns Rx or ingresses into a sign is improved by improving progressed positions during the calculations.

Aug 12, 2004: *Changing the house system of a progressed chart not making sure that natal and progressed house systems are the same or notifying user, by making them the same and displaying message to notify user.

Aug 17, 2004: *When selecting a BiWheel of a progressed chart, default chart is now the natal of the chart rather than the previously selected chart, which is more intuitive and helpful to the user. *Also, if you select the Two Wheels printout, select Customize, and then select Page Customize, and then Composite Tables, you can get an error message. Problem is fixed. *Also, the Calendar feature had a problem of not always showning 31st day of a month; this was corrected by using the standard Windows calendar component rather than a third party calendar component.

Aug 23, 2004: *In the Vedic wheel, planets are now placed in zodiac order in a house, which is much more intuitive and common.

Aug 25, 2004: *The calculation of strength when the simple strength formula for a Vedic Insight Report was improved. *Also, an option to include an interpretive report in the body of an e-mail message was added for a customer who requested it but a file named emailopt.txt must be in the Kepler file to activate the radio buttons that enable this. Because the feature is new, undocumented, and not fully tested, it is activated only if the file emailopt.txt is in the Kepler folder.

Aug 26, 2004: *Customize a wheel, select graphics and press the OK button: a message is diplayed that the file name is missing and this message should not be displayed. The message is now no longer displayed. *On the opening screen the hint for the Avalon/Encyclopedia feature had some extraneous information, which was removed.

Aug 27, 2004: *A wheel with azimuth-altitude coordinates in 360 degree format with shadow fonts is missing the first character of the degrees; problem is fixed. Also aspect lines drawn in the center of a wheel to the Asc in an azimuth-altitude chart may not be drawn to the correct point and this problem was fixed.

Aug 30, 2004: *In the Advanced Forecast Report 1 Day style the days of the week are not displayed correctly. Problem was in Kepler, not the Advanced Forecast Report, so installing Kepler update fixes the problem.

Aug 31, 2004: *At very high latitudes the planetary hours listing can have errors. Problem fixed. Also, when importing Solar Fire files, the name was changed from "First Last" to "Last, First" but this feature is confusing for charts with middle name or if last name is two words, for example, so the feature is removed. Solar Fire does not distinguish first and last names.

Sep 1, 2004: *E-mailing an AstroMap did not work; an error was displayed instead. Problem was fixed.

Sep 2, 2004: *Customizing a transit report and selecting planet stations and enter-exact-leave format results in a run-time error message because this combination does not work. A feature was added to detect and prevent this combination of selections.

Sep 9, 2004: *Some minor problems in selectng options in Kepler Workshop were corrected.

Sep 10, 2004: *The Progresseed Lunar Phase Report text was edited. Formatting of the report was also improved. Also, modification of research AstroSignature was improved by improving the calculation of the research multplider. Also, strengths of aspects in AstroSignatures was improved by making strength vary with the orb of the aspect.

Sep 11, 2004: *Scrolling a chart wheel or time was improved by making the scroll continuous during the drag rather than only responding on mouse up. *Also, in the data entry a slight aesthetic improvement was made by make sure that names list box moves closer to name when scrolling through names.

Sep 15, 2004: *Selecting sidereal chart and tropical progressions (unlikely but theoretically possible to do) can result in different house positions. Now zodiacs always checked on calculation to ensure that they match.

Sep 17, 2004: *Interactive selection of Jupiter by clicking on Jupiter in the chart wheel can display soft instead of hard aspect. Problem was fixed.

Sep 22, 2004: *Time of Moon ingress into signs in the Moon Calendar feature of Kepler Workshop was added. Also, it is possible to get a CTYx.FIL not found message wen selecting a Relocation Report by changing selections in unusual ways and this problem was removed.

Sep 23, 2004: *A time line with declinations can, in very rare circumstances, fail to run and display a run-time error. Problem was fixed.

Sep 27, 2004: *The updating of asteroid names with newly named asteroids was simpified and made faster.

Sep 29, 2004: *A typo in the Harmonics Highlight Report was fixed. Improved list of aspects in the Harmonics Highlight Report was also added.

Oct 1, 2004: *Font support for computers that do not smooth fonts properly was added by adding a Smooth check box in the font selection area and providing unsmoothed true type fonts. Problem appears to occur with less than 1% of computers and problem is only that the fonts are not as smooth as they should be.

Oct 5, 2004: *The year is added to the AstroSignature Forecast dates at bottom of the graph because this is a little better than having only month and day.

Oct 6, 2004: *In the Financial Toolbox the Save feature was not updating the label for the category. Problem fixed.

Oct 11, 2004: *Data entry of dates in European style not filtering bad data very well, and this was improved.

Oct 12, 2004: *Some minor improvements to appearance of some wheels made: Small BiWheel too high on the page and some font sizes of multi-ring wheels changed to look what we think is a bit better.

Oct 14, 2004: *A small typo in the Lunar Phases Report was fixed. Also, the Vedic Insight Report can dispay Tropical in the report even though it is always done in the Sidereal zodiac. Problem was fixed.

Oct 20, 2004: *If date on an eclipse map is on right edge, it gets cut off. Problem is fixed. *Also, the eclipse map font of grids was changed from Verdana to Arial.

Oct 22, 2004: *Default Vedic Dasas and Bhuktis setting changed to include Bhuktis. Also, in custmoizing dasa selections, selection names changed to be bhukti when vimsottari selected (different Vedic astrologers have different preferences but it is common to use the term bhukti with vimssottari dasas.

Nov 1, 2004: *When selecting Lunar Return Reports, a check box option to put a series of Lunar Returns in one report was added so user as option of putting only 1 lunar return or series of lunar returns in a report.

Nov 4, 2004: *Changing date in research was difficult because filtering of bad data not working well. Problem fixed.

Nov 6, 2004: *In Listing of Progressed Rx and Ingress dates, dates improved by improving progressed positions.

Nov 8, 2004: *If Rich Text Format for intepretations saved to file selected, AstroSignature Research will sometimes be affected by this and not run. Problem fixed. Also, an option for A4 paper was added to screen when Rich Text Format is selected for saving to file.

Nov 10, 2004: *To the Customize Transit screen, an option for Precessed Tropical Transits added so sidereal does not need to be selected to get precessed dates. Also, an improvement to entering European style dates in the data entry screen was made that provides smarter detection of invalid dates.

Nov 11, 2004: *Cosmo Reports did not include information about whether DST was observed. This was added.

Nov 19, 2004: *Very minor improvement: Information at bottom of some AstroMaps displayed on the screen looked a bit crowded and was improved.

Nov 22, 2004: *Selecting a progressed chart in the graphic ephemeris sometimes caused an error message and would not allow the selection. This was fixed. Also a specific isosceles trapezoid (Sun-Venus-Saturn-Uranus) could be missing from the isosceles trapezoid listing and this problem was fixed.

Nov 26, 2004: *Alcabitius house cusp calculations were corrected.

Dec 1, 2004: *The calendar now defaults to current date. Also, the form for editing text was made resizable so users can stretch it.

Dec 3, 2004: *Added feature of being able to get positions of planets in transit text listings.

Dec 6, 2004: *Correction to the Vocation and Career Explanation Report: one of the images was incorrect.

Dec 9, 2004: *Some new earthquake data added to the database of charts, and some other charts added and updates made to the database.

Dec 13, 2004: *An option to have reduced fonts when printing a reduced sie wheel was added.

Dec 14, 2004: *Wrong AstCalV.DLL file put on master disks for about 1 week, preventing any Kepler Workshop options from running Corrected.

Dec 16, 2004: *Transit-to-progressed timing of aspects was slightly improved. Also, the red/green Rx/direct line was not correct for transit-to-progressed aspects and it is removed for transit-to-progressed time lines.

Dec 23, 2004: *Midpoint trees in heliocentric were geocentric. This is fixed.

Jan 13, 2005: *The dasas and bhuktis listing in Kepler Workshop is correct but the one in Kepler was not. This was fixed. *Also, on some screens the last arabic part in the arabic parts listing was cut-off and this was fixed. *Also, the new option for reduced size fonts added on Dec 13 could slightly disturb the size of fonts printed in listings. This is fixed.

Jan 14, 2005: *It was not possible to remove specific asteroids in the Advanced Forecast Report; this is now possible. *Also, in 1280x760 resolution and other wide-screen formats, data on the right side of the wheel could be slightly obscured and this was fixed.

Jan 17, 2005: *Message about 800x600 screen removed when program starts when this resolution selected because not needed.

Jan 21, 2005: *In the screen for editing text of reports, some reports like Lunar Phases, etc. were not displayed as one of the choices. This is fixed. *Also, when selecting natal reports and changing menu items, an "A" can be displayed instead of "1" in the third menu while customizing, and this has been corrected.

Jan 24, 2005: *Importing data after using the research feature could result in names appearing twice in the database. Problem was fixed. *Also, if a transit-to-transit text listing with aspects that are only waxing and waning are selected, the aspect can be 180 degrees from what it should be. This is fixed.

Jan 28, 2005: *In listing of stationary planets, such as Mercury or Venus stationary, the times could on rare occasion be slightly incorrect. This was fixed. *Also, one user reported getting a range check error and inability to proceed with Vedic features when first selecting Vedic charts and this was fixed.

Feb 1, 2005: Selecting the "LE", "SE" lunar eclipse, solar eclipse, etc. labels in time lines has been simplified. Also, selecting a a Solar Rturn interpetation and then cancelling sometimes would not Cancel (a specific sequence of steps is necessary to do this). The problem is fixed.

Feb 2, 2005: *Customizing an AstroSignature Forecast after adding it can result in a listing of AstroSignatures that prevents further editing and selection of the AstroSignature until exiting the menu. Problem was fixed.

Feb 4, 2005: *The correction made on Jan 28 could cuase dates of parallels of declination in time line to not be dislpayed. This was fixed. *Also, the 3-planet and 4-planet patterns feature of AstroSignatures could, in rare situations, miss a patterns. This was fixed.

Feb 7, 2005: *Princeville, Hawaii was not in the database and was added.

Feb 10, 2005: *Minor typo in screen for adjusting font sizes made. The default TriWheel was changed from ADE to ADA. Also, QuadWheel ADA font sizes were made slightly larger.

Feb 14, 2005: *A composite chart with right ascension coordinates could not be selected. This is fixed.

Feb 16, 2005: *When adding Pairs to the AstroSignature Pairs research allowed entering the same pair of charts twice. This is fixed.

Feb 19, 2005: *After selecting a black-and-white color scheme for a wheel, it is not possible to change colors of aspect lines. This feature added.

Mar 8, 2005: *Import of AstroDatabank data not working because of new features added to Kepler 7 and old format of reported file in AstroDatabank. A change made to the importing feature of Kepler fixes the problem by detecting the old format and allowing the import to work.

Mar 10, 2005: *Auto-selection of printouts that include a time line format forecast improved with better messages during the process. *Also, 1 town in Canada (Argentia, Canada) was assigned the DST table of a neighborning province instead of the province it is in. This is also corrected.

Mar 23, 2005: *A minor correction to the timing of transit-to-transit aspects in a time line when planets are moving at nearly the same speed was made.

Mar 24, 2005: *When printing midpoints and selecting the "Change/View Settings" option the graphics printer selections are shown even though this printout uses the the report printer selections. *This did not affect the printout and was only relevant if the user has two different printers attached to the computer with one used for wheels and one for reports. This is fixed. *Also, when displaying a graphic ephemeris of only a progressed chart, it was decided to leave the name out, but this was not a good decision, and now all charts are clearly listed at the top of the screen.

Mar 26, 2005: *When DST changes in a transit listing and the user seleted detection of DST change, in rare situations detection of the DST change was missed. This is fixed.

March 31, 2005: Maryland DST Table #16, year 1947 DST ends changed from 9-21 to 9-28

April 13, 2005: Time LIne format forecast with times in European format: times not displayed correctly and is fixed.

April 15, 2005: In rare situation can get occur selecting AstroMap; problem fixed.

April 16, 2005: Graphic Ephemeris prints natal planets in light color (yellow) when viewing dark color scheme. Problem fixed.

April 20, 2005: Changing date from 1990 to 2000, for example, for lunar eclipses and ingresses is tricky; problem fixed.

May 17, 2005: Ability to enter non-English characters in the person's name is added as a new feature.

May 24, 2005: Sidereal planet returns in rare situations could not be calculated; now they can be. Also added new feature of Mean Node and True Node return charts, and the ability relocate solar arc directions added. Also the ability to have aspect grid data in bold was added as a new feature.

May 25, 2005: In rare situations dispaying two wheels with composite tables and then trying to customize the composite tables was not possible; problem was fixed.

May 27, 2005: Fixed star Diadem appeared twice in some lists. Problem is fixed.
June 6, 2005: The maximum length of a directory path when saving to file is extended from 50 characteers to 84 characters.

June 7, 2005: Added new feature to make it easier when creating your own interpretive report to add interpretations of a ruler of house with "RP" in ISI keyword.

June 8, 2005: Feature added to Numerology Report: 1st letter of name is Y has a new rule "y" which indicates if the Y as first letter is folowed by a consonant it is a vowel and if followed by a vowel is a consonant.

June 17, 2005: Kepler Workshop would not run if there is no printer installed in Windows; now it will run.

June 23, 2005: A Solar return occurring between 12 AM and 1 PM of following day sometimes prints wrong time, although chart is correct. Problem fixed.

June 25, 2005: AstroLocality report had a typo for planet 3/16 Descendant. Problem fixed.

July 11, 2005: Firdaria calculation sometimes calculated as if day time for some charts. Problem fixed.

July 15, 2005: DST Tables for Brazil were improved.

July 22, 2005: Black Holes in Galactic Report can be incorrect if database of fixed stars customized. Problem fixed.

August 2, 2005: Local Space AstroMaps can in rare situations not print and have an extra MC line. Problem fixed.

August 3, 2005: The placing of labels in an AstroMap when the labels are bunched up and nearly on top of each other has been improved.

August 4, 2005: Placement of parallel and contraparallel glyphs in an aspect grid placed slightly to the left of where
they were because this looks slightly better.

August 10, 2005: If whole sign houses selected and chart is progressed, cusps are sometimes not in whole sign houses; problem fixed.

August 12, 2005: Ability to add 3 newly discovered large asteroids to the asteroid wheel and to the listing of asteroid positions hs been added. The new asteroids are 2003 UB313 (temporarily referred to as Xena, but not officially named yet), 2003 EL61, and 2005 FY9

August 15, 2005: The selection of asteroids when customizing the asteroids in an asteroid wheel is improved by giving better abbreviations for the asteroid as the default. E.g. asteroid "2003 EL6" now has default abbreviation of "EL6" instead of "200".

August 16, 2005: In extremely rare circumstances Vertex can be place on east side of chart. Problem fixed.

August 24, 2005: Placement of parallels and contraparallels in aspect grid improved.

September 3, 2005: 306 recently named asteroids added to the optional 38,000 asteriods CD option, and Kepler updated to install these asteroids from the 4th CD.

September 5, 2005: Spanish Cosmo Natal has English words for some planets in aspect. Fixed.

September 7, 2005: Menu items for new AstroJourney II report added.

September 9, 2005: New feature added to forcast reports: if astrological data does not fit on the page, program goes to a new page (needed by AstroJourney II Report).

September 14, 2005: A blank line that was printed after the text ephemeris printout and before the ingress list was removed. Also, capability to produce the new Asteroid Signatures Report added.

September 15, 2005: Change made on September 3 (see above) can cause installation of 2nd asteroid CD to not work. Problem fixed.

September 16, 2005: Spanish Cosmo Report edited for grammar and spelling mistakes.

September 20, 2005: Planetary hours in medieval wheels can be missing from the printout in very unusual cases for some charts at beginning of the day. Problem fixed.

September 22, 2005: Transits to a heliocentric chart sometimes cannot be produced and blank screen produced. Problem fixed.

September 27, 2005: Menu items added for new Asteroid Signatures report, which is now available.

September 30, 2005: New feature to link to other astrology programs from within Kepler added. Also, very minor cosmetic problem when customizing wheels of glyphs not displayed correctly when changing zodiac sign colors fixed.

October 5, 2005: When customizing a wheel, found that a file was not getting properly closed and this appears to not cause any problems but program code is not correct and was fixed.

October 6, 2005: Planets near 22.5 degrees in a 90 degree dial could, in very rare, circumstances not be displayed. Problem fixed.

October 7, 2005: Some foreign characters allowed to name of person added on May 17, 2005 removed because in special situations can cause problems in accessing data.

October 12, 2005: Fixed star positions in Kepler Workshop fixed star list not updated immediately for first chart. Problem fixed.

October 18, 2005: If aspect table in a wheel is customized to display seconds (extremely unlikely possibility that perhaps no users have done) then seconds displayed is incorrectly 0. Problem is fixed.

October 21, 2005: Horizon charts and mundoscopes in sidereal zodiac accuracy improved.

October 24, 2005: Asteroid wheel of a composite chart not correct. Also, Gauquelin sectors for chart in LMT not precisely correct and accuracy improved.

November 1, 2005: Distances displayed for points on AstroMap was correct in miles but not in kilometers. Problem was fixed. Also, the house placement interpretation in the interactive interpretations (i.e. clicking on planet glyph in a wheel) were not correct if clicking on a harmonic chart. Problem was fixed. Birth data of Carl Jung corrected from 0 hr 30 min west time zone to 0 hr 30 min east time zone. Also, fixed star Albireo misspelled and was corrected.

November 4, 2005: Adding too many asteroids to an asteroid wheel sometimes produced an error message and could not be done. Problem was fixed. Also, the update installation program did not always update file astcalcv.dll and now it does.

November 9, 2005: New feature added to make possible interpretations of Chinese sign and element in 60 year cycle, which is needed for a future Chinese interpretive report that is being developed. Bug introduced on November 4 that prevented art wheels from being displayed was fixed.

November 14, 2005: If asteroid added to a table in a wheel, it is true node and this is changed to be the default node (mean or true) user has selected for the program.

November 18, 2005: Ayanamsha calculation improved using different option of the Swiss Ephemeris, and this can have a very small effect on calculation of sidereal solar returns.

November 23, 2005: The main Kepler Workshop screen has been resizable rather than a fixed size.

November 25, 2005: New feature to produce integrated reports (which are in development for the future) added. Also, an option to calculate solar returns of charts in right ascension with the right ascension arc was added to the settings. Also, if an AstroMap in south latitudes and the chart to compare to option is selected, the positions may not be updated to compare to the other chart. Problem was fixed.

November 26, 2005: Chart data entered in LAT can now be converted to LMT and a note about this was added to the data entry screen when the cursor is placed on the DST Observed field.

November 29, 2005: A Print button was added to the Asteroid Signatures screen.

November 30, 2005: Misspellings of fixed stars Alamach and Sadalmelik fixed.

December 5, 2005: Option for Solar Rturns in right ascension added to the Setting screen added on November 25 not always working and was corrected. Solar and lunar returns to mundoscope charts sometimes would not calcualate and could freeze the computer and this was fixed. Also, accuracy of fixed star positions improved.

December 6, 2005: Ability to save interpretive reports in PDF file added (which works when pictures are include as well, and the file can be attached to an e-mail message to e-mail reports with pictures), and a menu item to save either highlighted text or all text in a report to the Windows Clipboard was added.

• Cosmic Patterns Staff