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In that case, the moon would appear to travel the same path in the sky every day

and night, never appearing higher or lower as long as you stayed at the same spot

to observe it.

It would not mean eclipses every month. In order to guarantee that, the moon's

orbit would need to be aligned with the ecliptic, meaning that it coincided with

the plane of Earth's orbit. That's not the same as the equatorial plane ... the two

differ by 23.5° .

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