Upside-Down Crescent

This might appear to be a normal crescent moon in twilight, but something is definitely wrong! At night, the bright part of a crescent moon is always on the bottom, but in this disorienting view the bright part is on the top! We are actually seeing the partial phase of a lunar eclipse; the bottom half of the rising full moon is covered by the earth's shadow.

Location: Phoenix, Arizona.
Date: May 15, 2003.
Time: 7:48 p.m. MST.
Camera: Olympus OM-1 35mm SLR on fixed tripod.
Film: Kodak Elite Chrome 400 slide.
Focal length: 200 mm.
Aperture: f/8-11.
Exposure time: 1 second.
Scanner: Nikon Coolscan LS-10E.