james wrote:

Hello everybody I have a few questions for a planetarium program that
i am writing. i hope some clever person can help me.

1 How many degrees is the earth kicked back off the ecliptic.

2 How far does the moon / mecury / venus vary off the ecliptic

3 How long exactly does the moon / mecury / venus take to do a full
rotaion of the sun / earth

What Ron said ...

but you might start by looking at

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html.

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Odysseus