A near-total lunar eclipse will occur this week. How best to view it

Skygazers will want to look up this week for a special celestial treat: A partial lunar eclipse will take place, and it will be an especially deep one, covering almost all of the moon with the Earth’s shadow. The eclipse will occur on Thursday night into early Friday, according to NASA. "At the moment of greatest eclipse," the space agency explained, "96.3% percent of the Moon's disk is within…