Interesting mix, Raoul...

In the frame from Starry Night, and your comment about it, you've pulled us out of the traditional consensus view of Earth.

But, when you rotated the "Earthrise" photo, you assumed the astronomical equivalent of the same tradition. The result is a more accurate view if one orients with the ecliptic plane horizontal and uses the right-hand rule: North is Up; prograde rotation is counterclockwise.

The astronauts who took that photo had already re-oriented their point-of-view to match how they lived on Earth: ground is Down, sky is Up. So which rotation of the photo is "truer": as seen in the consensual solar system reference frame, or as seen by the photographer?

[BTW, your post caused me to research the Apollo 8 mission, to confirm that their orbit was retrograde, as were all the others. Otherwise, that would have been an "Earthset".]