question time

okay so this is bugging the hell out of me and possibly a few others i know but for the last few nights the moon has looked very different, personally ive never seen it like this before but a few i know have said they have once or twice. IT's basically a huge huge bright orange moon and i mean like pumpkin orange with half the moon "covered" up. Usually the moon has a vertical looking axis and side to side phases but the past few days its been a horizontal "axis and top bottom phases. I don't have a camera good enough to post a pic nor can i find one that even comes close to what we're seeing. Anyone anywhere have any idea? and is there anything particularly magical about it other than it's eerie gorgeous:P?