Installing Mansion Tracker

A link to the file, named mt.zip is included in your welcome e-mail. Create a new folder called Mansion Tracker in your program files folder and save mt.zip to the new Mansion Tracker folder.
Unzip mt.zip to the Mansion Tracker folder. If you do not already have zip decompression software on your computer (it is included with Windows XP, for example) you can download Winzip for free by following this link.
Once you have unzipped mt.zip run the program setup.exe which has appeared in the Mansion Tracker folder.




Running Mansion Tracker

Go to the Mansion Tracker folder. Run the program MansionTracker.exe. Please note that if you install Mansion Tracker on a laptop you may need to select a default printer, even if you don't intend to print or there may be problems with the program operating at all.




Using Mansion Tracker


When you run Mansion Tracker first the flash screen, then the "About Mansion Tracker" screen will appear. At the bottom of the screen are two buttons. Click "OK" to continue and calculate the Mansions of the Moon. Clicking "Exit" will exit the program.

Once you click "OK" you will be taken to the Mansion Tracker main screen.


Setting Mansion Tracker for Your Time Zone

When you run Mansion Tracker for the first time you need to set the proper time zone for your location:

Eastern Daylight Time is -4
Eastern Standard Time is -5
Central Daylight Time is -5
Central Standard Time is -6
Mountain Daylight Time is -6
Mountain Standard Time is -7
Pacific Daylight Time is -7
Pacific Standard Time is -8
Alaska Daylight Time is -8
Alaska Standard Time is -9
Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time is -9
Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time is -10


Here are the time zone for some world cities for comparison:
Beijing is +8
Brussels is +1
Buenos Aires is -3
Cairo is +2
Jakarta is +7
London (U.K.) is 0
Los Angeles: -8
Madrid: +1
Melbourne is -10
Mexico City is -6
Moscow is +3
New Delhi is +5.30
New York is -5
Paris is +1
Rome is +1
Sydney is +10
Tokyo is +9
Washington is -5

Check to make sure that the proper Daylight Saving time correction has been selected for your location:

BST British Summer Time +1
IST Irish Summer Time +1
WET Western Europe Time 0
WEST Western Europe Summer Time +1
CET Central Europe Time +1
CEST Central Europe Summer Time, +2
EET Eastern Europe Time +2
EEST Eastern Europe Summer Time +3
MSK Moscow Time +3
MSD Moscow Summer Time +4


AEST Australian Eastern Standard Time +10
AEDT Australian Eastern Daylight Time +11
ACST Australian Central Standard Time +9.5
ACDT Australian Central Daylight Time +10.5
AWST Australian Western Standard Time +8


Finding Mansions with Mansion Tracker

Once you have set the time zone and Daylight Saving Time correction for your location, simply enter the number of days you wish Mansion Tracker to display Mansions for and press the compute button. The time and date when the Moon enters and leaves each Mansion for the number of days selected will be displayed on the left screen using 24 hour "military time" and with the date displayed as year, month and day.




Mansion Tracker Print, Exit

Click the "Print" button to print out the current computed planetary hours on your default printer. Please note that if you install Mansion Tracker on a laptop you may need to select a default printer, even if you don't intend to print or there may be problems with the program operating at all. Click "Exit" to exit the program.