Here we focus on the Beehive Cluster in central Cancer, otherwise known as Praesepe or by its Messier catalog number, M44.  The cluster is one of the largest open clusters in the sky and a great view in binoculars or a small telescope.  At the bottom right is the other Messier object in Cancer, the open cluster M67.  Cancer also has several showpiece double stars but they are farther out from the Beehive than this image extends, but one very interesting object that is shown here is the carbon star X Cancri.  One of the interesting things about examining your images is that you notice objects or groups of them that are completely new to you ~ here, an example is a faint star of even deeper red than X, marked on the image with a white circle.  According to my planetarium software, this star has a spectral classification of R6v, which I had never even heard of before.  Further research showed that this star is identifed as T Cancri, a well-known deep red carbon star.  I will have to add this one to my list!  Unannotated image.