Shortly, I will be beginning my third year at University in Computer Science, I

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Shortly, I will be beginning my third year at University in Computer Science, I am a software developer and I will be required to work on a final year project.

My idea for my final year project is to write a desktop application which would allow the user to specify a date/time and it would return all of the positions of the planets at that point in time.

I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction of how I would begin to do the math or calculate this, as I'm aware that position is relative and a bit open ended - any scope refinements to my project would be gladly accepted too as I'd like to incorporate other things.

Just to reiterate: This is not a programming question, and I'm not asking for someone to 'do my project for me' but any helpful pointers would be appreciated.

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If you want to start from zero, that is, from the maths itself, there is an often cited book, Astronomical Algorithms by Jean Meeus.

You can also look into the scientific models of the Solar System, such as the French VSOP (Variations S

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