This is an actual photo that someone took. I think it's about 8 hours of exposure time all together. Many of the cool Astrophotography photos on the net these days are a combination of a bunch of images. You take 10 shots at 30 seconds a pop, then use an application to line them up with each other and stack the layers on top of each other. This was made the same way over the course of a year or several months.
That's all of Orion's sword and the star at one end of his belt.
Left to right, that's the flame nebula, the horsehead nebula, the running man nebula and the Orion Nebula
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