"You come here to Adler, you can see all 360 degrees of the moon — even the stuff that we can't see here from earth," said Adler Planetarium astrophysicist Michael Zevin. On Thu

A Sun-Times photographer joined stargazers at Montrose Harbor as the Earth’s shadow began to move across the moon early Friday.

This week’s lunar eclipse will be the first witnessed in high-def from the moon itself — technically a solar eclipse on the moon — thanks to a lunar lander. “I cannot wait for this to happen,” said astronomer Michelle Nichols of Adler Planetarium.