CzSkY

Jan 20–23: 88P/Howell will pass across the bright nebula M8 (Lagoon Nebula).
Jan 25: 3I/ATLAS will pass just a few arcminutes from the galaxy NGC 2522 (~14 mag).
Jan 25: C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) will pass over the galaxy NGC 374 (~14 mag).
Jan 25–31: C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) will be in a rich field of faint galaxies — great for longer exposures and for hunting details in the coma/tail.

First Quarter occurs on Monday, January 26 at 05:47 CET.
Tuesday, January 20: the Moon will already be a thin crescent low in the evening sky.
Friday, January 23: the Moon will be above Saturn.

Mercury (−1.1 mag): not observable; approaching superior conjunction.
Venus (−4 mag): also not observable.
Mars (1.2 mag): not observable; it was in conjunction with the Sun on January 9.
Jupiter (−2.7 mag): visible all night, as it was at opposition on January 10.
Saturn (1.2 mag): in the evening after dusk above the southwestern horizon. On January 17, Titan will be occulted (ingress behind the planet at 17:05 CET).
Uranus (5.6 mag): high above the southeast in the evening, about 5° below the Pleiades; under very dark skies it may be faintly visible to the naked eye.
Neptune (7.9 mag): near Saturn, about 3° to the left.

Solar activity is higher; one very active region is crossing the center of the disk, with flares so far at low to moderate levels.
Evening of Jan 18: a strong X2 flare and a coronal mass ejection (CME) occurred, with part of it heading toward Earth → the chance of aurora in ~2 days is not negligible.

Tracking:

24P/Schaumasse (9–10 mag): currently the most accessible comet for smaller telescopes. It’s large and diffuse → a dark sky, a wide field of view, and often a larger aperture help.
C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS): promising for spring (potentially good with binoculars).
A “suicidal” Kreutz-family comet (no official designation yet): still a big unknown — observed for too short a time and with an uncertain orbit (with retroactive positions available from December 2025).

Authors: MaG, VIC, Ladin