James Hynes SVP tables

[aloist]

In a recent discussion in the Swiss Ephemeris mailing list regarding usage of the Fagan/Bradley sidereal zodiac someone mentioned James Hynes' SVP tables.
I would like to have a look at these, to work out what Hynes exactly computed. Where can they be found?
If it is a lengthy document, a few pages will probably be sufficient. Please email me at alois@astro.com if possible.

[Jim Eshelman]

I'm 99% sure this is what's in the Primer. The usual tables for getting a mean value and then a mutation table. Going from memory, something like a dozen pages.

[aloist]

Thank you. I have the Primer of Sidereal Astrology.
So this would be pages 142 and 143, in there

[Jim Eshelman]

Counting the few pages explaining the use of the tables, these cover pp. 135-146 of the AFA edition. I read fast and didn't actually see Hynes' name anywhere, though I thought I'd seen it in the past. (I'm racing out the door and don't have time to read slowly.) Perhaps someone else can confirm my memory.

[aloist]

Fagan mentions Hynes in the preface to the 3rd edition:

| We are grateful to James Hynes of Dublin for permission to publish some of his excellent tables.

[mikestar13]

Hynes also published published the SVP tables in a separate book with instructions and two worked examples.One calculation of the SVP for a given date, and one calculation of the date which the SVP would reach a given longitude: SVP 0Aq0'0" on 4 July 2376 CE. Hynes was probably the first to calculate this date. I used the SVP tables for every horoscope I cast until the American Sidereal Ephemeris came out.

[Jim Eshelman]

I completely forgot about that Hynes-generated stand-alone book that ROSA published in the mid-'70s. I had a copy as it came off the press but I probably never used it for anything, just read through it once and tossed it on a shelf.

What I used before I had a Sidereal ephemeris was the Garth Allen SVP table Carl Stahl published. Stahl was a real gift to Sidereal astrology, publishing many of the resources needed including hand-calculating, typing, and publishing his ground-breaking Sidereal ephemeris during the 1960s until Omega took over the task of doing this annually with a computer. My thin, orange-covered SVP ephemeris was one of my most precious possessions,

I see that somebody has kept it still in print in an inexpensive edition - which today is more of a curio - even though they entirely screwed up the authorship.
https://www.amazon.com/Synetic-Vernal-P ... B000EANSC8

[mikestar13]

Stahl Allen? So Carl Stahl's last name had an illicit affair with Donald Bradley's pseudonym and they produced an illegitimate child ?

[Jim Eshelman]

According to the Amazon ad, said child's name was Carl Garth Allen.

Ah, but talk about a "love child" - just imagine what acts of love it took to produce all that foundation material. The SVP ephemeris alone is a huge task - and then Stahl calculated a Sidereal ephemeris from the equatorial coordinates in the Nautical Almanac, inventing new resources like the SSRY - truly a work of love. I probably don't praise Stahl's memory often enough.

[mikestar13]

Indeed Stahl is one of Sidereal astrology's mostly unsung heroes.