[grannie9]

Ok you guys, I have a question. I have always thought the moon followed the sun's trajectory, but now I see the moon going down a good third at least further across the sky than the sun went down. Just last week or so ago it followed the sun when I guess it was a new moon. Now it's way over to the right of the sky.

I'm confused.. Straighten me out, will ya?

[ValerieUSA]

Moongazing makes you luney.

[null and void]

It's following. It's just falling behind...

[Darksheare]

The Moon's orbit isn't exactly 29 days long.
So it tends to appear to wobble in it's orbit.
This takes something like 91/2 or so years for it to go from one end to the other in it's arc across the sky.
(Meaning, in 9.5 years the arc of the moon's orbit apears to shift higher or lower in it's track.)
Not an exact or completely accurate explanation, but close enough.