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'Ellipse' ??? I think you mean 'Eclipse'.

First of all The Moon orbits the Earth in an 'Ellipsoidal fashion'. That is it is an ellipse that doesn't quite close up. Similarly, as a binary system the Earth and Moon orbit the Sun in a similar ellipsoidal fashion.

When the 'Moon is between the Earth and the Moon'. is a nonsense. I think you mean ,When the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun.'

In this case it is a Solar Eclipse, because the Sun(Solar) is being obscured. These do NOT occur at every New Moon, because the Moon's orbital plane abount the Earth is angled at 5 degrees to the Earth's orbital plane about the Sun. It is only when these two planes cross(intersect) at New Moon, that you have a Solar Eclipose. Similarly , for Lunar Eclipose.

NB ;Ellipse' is a flattened planar circle.

Eclipse is that something is being hidden.

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