"It doesn't look normal at all," says Bob King regarding the new red tint taken on by our sun due to wildfire smoke from Canada. "It was just this cherry-orange ball in the western sky," says King of the sun on May 15th.
Though this unique sight might be interesting, the smoke doesn't offer much otherwise. An early-morning view of a conjunction between Jupiter and the crescent moon could be thwarted, as might a gathering of Castor, Pollux, Mars and Venus tonight. The International Space Station will be on the move throughout the end of May. King is fairly optimistic about the ISS being visible through the smokey skies tonight around 10:01pm.
In other news, Saturn has now taken the lead in our solar system for the most moons. In just the past couple of weeks, astronomers have added 62 moons to Saturn's count bringing its total up to 145; fifty more than Jupiter. Some of the moons (or "moonlets") are quite small, but "there's no minimum size for a moon."