is it simple to figure out the location of moon with reference to earth+sun on any day ?

i did lot of googling, all i understood so far is that moon is orbiting in a different plane around earth. thats the reason for not having regular eclipses. but i just dont understand how we model the position of moon wid time. plz help

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is it simple to figure out the location of moon with reference to earth+sun on any day ? 

i did lot of googling, all i understood so far is that moon is orbiting in a different plane around earth. thats the reason for not having regular eclipses. but i just dont understand how we model the position of moon wid time. plz help

anonymous · Answer

well thats perhaps a lot of Astronomy, i mean by studying the location of moon at different intervals, you can predict the position, u see it follows a regular trend

anonymous · Answer

No, it's not simple. If you consider the entire Sun-Earth-Moon system, the Moon executes a funny-looking dented circle around the Sun, sort of a cross between a circle and a twelve-sided polygon: http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/convex.html