M50 (NGC 2323) is an open cluster in the constellation Monoceros, and at magnitude 5.9, is barely visible to the naked eye in dark skies.
The picture was taken with a fully modified Canon Rebel camera (this is my one shot color (OSC)) on a TEC 140 telescope from the Alpenglow-Torrey House Observatory in the dark sky community of Torrey, Utah (Bortle 2-3). 12 two-minute sub frames stacked in Deep Sky Stacker = 24 minute photo. Processed in Photoshop (CS5). Unguided, no calibration frames.