Been doing astrophotography long have you?

 Didn’t think so, this isn’t like dinky shits and giggles photos, you cobble up using software. Every photon you miss degrades the image, if you composite 17 images and deduct the trails that occlude a star or part of the comet coma and tail you interfere with the integrity of the final image. Some of the stars in the field are such low magnitude that they only become visible with cumulative additive layers.

 Judging by the final composite which contains approximately 30 trails with between 3 and 5 segments so lets say 4 on average thats 120 artifacts or about 7 per image. If you throw that sequence into any filter to reduce artifacts it will drop not only those 7 trails but any stars that aren’t included in all frames.

 So yes, you could process this and get a “nice clean” image with about 30% less stars visible and actual degradation of the comet portions.

 And this is only on 30 second exposures, imagine the headaches on 30 minute, or two hour exposures when these fucking things streaking over the plate are 10 orders of magnitude brighter that the element you are trying to image?

 You think this is some cutsie joke?