Ditto, ditto. Nicely said.
Those are 2 photos that nicely illustrate the issue, cmyk. Thanks!
Upon thinking more about this, I should not have been surprised, as I know in the Northern hemisphere, the shadow on a sundial appears to move in a “clockwise” direction and in the Southern hemisphere it appears to move “counter clockwise” due to the sun’s apparent position in the sky and the need to point the gnomon to true south rather than true north. This would also seem to apply to the apparent orientation of the moon with respect to the observer.
No, it doesn’t. It’s your view of the Moon that rotates.
Wait a minute! How did you do that? All your "t"s are below the line in the upside-down script. That’s hella weird.
It’s not true upside-down script. It’s a collection of characters that look like upside-down script: The inverted 'd’s, for instance, are just plain ordinary 'p’s. And the 'l’s are the same as the right-side-up version. Apparently the closest approximation to an upside-down ‘t’ is a character that’s centered a bit higher on the line (and likewise for the 'i’s).
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Plus I’m going to think about the man in the moon and 3-D aspects. IvoryTower describes eloquently spatial cretins like me.
Even more accurately, it’s you who rotates.
I remember one of the more surreal things that struck me when my family moved from Texas to Brazil when I was in high school was that the Moon appeared “sideways” down there.
Ditto.
Is the NY one of a famous “blood moon?” Or the largest one of the year…what’s that one called? (I think a blood moon is a “second” one in a calendrical month, but I’m not sure now…)
I recall reading that this would be one of a couple of problems with planning any giant advertisements on the surface of the moon like laser projections or billboards.
No, that’s only because it’s low on the horizon, and just as in sunrises/sunsets, the thicker atmosphere is refracting all those red wavelengths, coloring the moon similarly.
As far as a second full moon within a calendar month, you’re thinking of a “blue moon”. But it can be a bit more complicated than just that (see the wiki article).
As far as a “blood moon” you might be thinking of what a lunar eclipse is sometimes referred to when the glowing red umbra of earth’s shadow crosses over. Why red? because the earth’s atmosphere is aglow, from the sun behind it, like a ring of fire around the earth from the POV of the moon, and is casting all that red light onto its surface during the “darkest” part of the eclipse. The moon is seeing all of Earth’s sunrises and sunsets all at once.
This came up here a few years ago and I made a graphic back then to illustrate the phenomenon.
Nice graphic GL, and it helps me visualize the Moon from different latitudes. Thank you.
I’ll sleep better now. 
A Dutch woman told me that she remembered it using the French premier and dernier (the shape of the round part of the first letter matches the phase). Then I swap them round for the southern hemisphere. C for Crescent is much easier!
We were taught at school to remember the COD pattern by using the Latin verbs crescere and decrescere.
When I traveled from Regina SK. (50d N) to Palm Springs CA (34 d N) I noticed that the moon was sideways. Similar to the picture of Sydney Aus. (34 d S)
I doubt it. While you may be closer to the moon being on the equator compared to the poles the difference wouldn’t be visually noticeable.
The moon is over 238K miles away and we’re talking about a difference of probably less than 5K miles.
This wouldn’t appear to help at all. I’ve always seen “crescent” applied to both the waxing and waning moon just before or just after the new moon.
The Latin root of the word crescent means “to grow”, as in increasing size.
In Spanish, they way I learned it, “Cresciente” (the name of the Moon phase), means “enlarging, growing”