Earthrise from Apollo 11, 1969jul16

Caption: Earthrise from Apollo 11, 1969 Jul16. But not the famous image Earthrise.

A picture which never gets tired.

Actually, the Earth doesn't rise for anyone located on the surface of the Moon.

Recall the Moon always turns the same face (the near side) toward the Earth due to tidal locking.

So a Selenite (a Moon being) would always see the Earth at approximately the same place in the sky relative to the lunar surface. There would be a little motion due to lunar libration.

The Apollo 11 astronauts---Neil Armstrong (1930--2012), Buzz Aldrin (1930--), Michael Collins (1930--)---saw the rising Earth every time the lunar orbiter returned from the far side---which would be about every two hours (see Wikipedia: Lunar orbit: Human crewed spacecraft).

Kepler's 3rd law applied to the Moon is

  p=sqrt[4*π**2/(GM)]*r**(3/2)=108.27 minutes * (r/r_moon)**(3/2)  ,

    where the gravitational constant G=6.67384*10**(-11) in MKS units,
             and
             r = 1737.10 km is the mean lunar radius
             and
             M = 7.3477*10**22 kg is the lunar mass
             (see Wikipedia:  Moon).  
So one can see that relatively low lunar orbits should be about two hours.

Mike Collins who was the Apollo 11 astronaut who stayed with the lunar orbiter said---if I recall correctly---that it was pretty lonely orbiting on the far side---he was out of touch with Earth and nearly as far from humankind as anyone has every been---the rising of the Earth must have been a welcome sight.

Credit/Permission: NASA, NASA: Image #AS11-44-6549, 1969 / Public domain.
Image link: Itself.
File: Moon file: moon_earthrise_b.html.