Yes it is.
That is the view towards the south. I've highlighted the Teapot asterism. The spout is to the right, then there's the body with the lid and finally the handle. In the night sky, the nine stars are much more prominent than in this scaled down widefield shot. This asterism is part of the constellation of Sagittarius.
Just to the right of the Teapot we see part of the central bulge of our galaxy. Lots of dust in the plane of the Milky Way obscure light from more distant stars - that is the dark thick jagged line running diagonally through the image. The deep space objects highlighted in the yellow and pink rectangles are much "nearer" than the dust and the stars of the galactic center.
Within the yellow one is the open cluster M7 (when told about this, our Baloch host joked that any Baloch sardar upon hearing this name would ask if this is a new weapon).
(Image courtesy NOAO)
Within the pink rectangle is the Lagoon Nebula (M8). It is much "closer" to us than the galactic center and hence is visible in the foreground of the dust. It is about 5'200 light-years away and spans about 140 by 160 light-years.
(Image credit: Richard Crisp)
The human eye does not see such vivid colors (in fact, it will just see a greyish cloud) because our color vision does not work in darkness or low-lighting. Hanif bhai's images did not capture color because of the built-in IR filter digital cameras have.
The bright patch in the purple rectangle is where there is a "window" in the dust so that we can look deeper. Called the Sagittarius Star Cluster, it is a pseudo-cluster of stars spread thousands of light years along our line of sight, perceived through the "tunnel" in the interstellar dust. They form a portion of a spiral arm of our galaxy.
In this image, the bright patch in the center is the Sagittarius Star Cloud.
Excuse me if I've been "pakaaing" too much!
