Tonight and tomorrow night, Mars slides through the Beehive cluster in the heart of Cancer. A pair of 10 x 50 binoculars easily show the event.
In the image: to the lower right of Mars are the stars Pollux and Castor in Gemini. To the upper left of Mars shines Regulus and Saturn, with Saturn being the brighter of the two. The Beehive is the dim blurry bundle just to the Mars' left. Both Mars and the Bees are nearly centered within the diamond shaped skep.
Such is our view from Earth ...
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