You may remember my entry last week about Mars and how good it would look in a telescope as it approached its opposition with Earth on January 29. Well, opposition has come and gone, but things are about to get a little more interesting. Tonight and tomorrow night (Feb 1) offer a special treat for those astronomers that are willing to carry their equipment back out into the frigid winter temperatures. Mars and The Beehive Cluster (M44) will be within 4 degrees of each other as they rise together in eastern sky after 1830 EST. The Beehive is a magnitude 4.00 open cluster of stars in the Constellation Cancer and should be relatively easy to see with a small to moderate sized telescope.