Whatever is selected, the differences they make in a chart are equivalent to a difference of a fraction of a minute of birth time. Other times, it’s the most populous area of a city, or it’s simply anywhere within the city limits. How are a city’s coordinates determined? Very often, it’s the City Hall (or equivalent) coordinates. These are rounded off but it’s absolutely fine to work with rounded off figures because cities fall within a latitude-longitude range. I’ve entered this information into the excellent Sirius software program, and as you can see, the coordinates used for the birthplace, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, are 19 S 55 and 43 W 56. The information for this first example is for “L” and is as follows: Sirius uses the ACS Atlas which seems to be the industry standard and is used by many professional astrology software programs. First, I entered the following details into the online software on my site and then into Sirius. I’ve already answered this question above, but now I am going to show whoever is interested in why this is the case. Should you worry about small differences in the Degrees/Minutes of your Ascendant? Fortunately, there is truly no need to worry about this, even in the uncommon situation where it might change a house cusp from one sign to another. This article addresses this issue, but for those who only want a bottom line so they can move on… small differences that amount to a fraction of a degree are negligible, largely because we don’t record birth times to the second and birthplace coordinates are also approximate.

Understanding the Degree (and Minutes) of the Ascendant in your Natal Chartĭifferent astrology software programs whether online or off can yield slightly different Ascendants and house cusps.

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