Okie.. I think I have worked out how to get the local sidereal time (following my instructions).
Now I have it, I have no idea what to do with it lol).
For example if I was going to look for a chart now, 1300hrs GMT in Exeter on the 9 march 2015
The Sidereal time for 00:00 10 march is 11hrs 9min 25sec
but I want to get my time now so I need to -11hours to get the sidereal time for now which is 00hr 9min 25 secs.
The acceleration of interval (-11hrs) is 9.86secs x 11 = 108.46 secs which is approx 1min and 8 secs, which I need to take away as my time was at 0000 on the 10th.
00hr 9min 25secs - 1min 8secs = 00hr 8min 17secs
Then I have to adjust this for my longitute equivalent which is 3,5deg (approx) W so
4(mins of time) x 3.5 (deg of longitute) = 14mins, which I need to subtract from my sidereal time as it is West
00hrs 8min 17 secs - 00hrs 14mins 00 secs = 23hr 54mins 17 secs
So my Local Sideral Time at 1300hrs in Exeter on the 9th March 2014 is 23hr 54min 17 seconds.
Is that right?
Now my next instructions is to look at the table of houses with this calculation, the ancient version you posted Minderwiz
https://archive.org/details/Astrolog...thernLatitudes I dont understand at all, but I assue that the degrees listed are 360 from 0 being 0Aries?
I've found a Table of Houses for Regiomontanus system via link from skyscript
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/texts.html scroll down to R
which I've downloaded.
So if my LST is 23hr 54, the table gives me times for 23hr52 and 23hr 56. Which should I use?
Also, it gives it for lattitute degrees 50 and 51, now exeter is 50.7 deg Lat, so I'm think which should I use? Should I go with 51 or aim to try and correct them for extra precision. My tutor has given a table for putting in Nearest Lower and Nearest Higher ST so should I put those in for the 51 deg?
And yes I now have a headache and thats before looking at the planets!