Lagna (ascendant)
The ascendant: the sign rising on the eastern horizon at a moment and place. It changes about every two hours on average and is the first house of a birth chart.
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Rising now: Kanya (Virgo)
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How this site calculates it
The sidereal ascendant from the local apparent sidereal time, the true obliquity and the latitude: λ = atan2(cos θ, −(sin θ cos ε + tan φ sin ε)), minus the ayanamsa.
Rule in the code: src/domain/astronomy/sky.ts — Sky.ascendantSidereal
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Traditions may vary by region and Panchang convention. Times are shown for the selected place, time zone and calculation profile.