Oh yeah, that’s what it looks like to me.
Forgive me if I misconstrued your response, which struck me as snarkily dismissive. A comet (or small planet) is not distinguished from the background of stars so much by its appearance as by its apparent displacement with time. Schumacher-Levy 9 was discovered by Carolyn Schumacher by comparing photographs of the same patch of the sky taken at different times using an instrument called a "blink comparator". It allows the human eye/brain to compare two well aligned images of the same patch of sky taken at different times and notice if anything appears to move compared to the background of fixed stars. (Computers can do the same thing with digitized images even more effectively.)
If something appears to move in a consistent manner, it's not a star nor is it noise. When Galle discovered Neptune, using Le Verrier's calculations and an updated star chart, he could tell it was a planet because it did not appear as point, but as a small circle. During the night, while observing it, he noticed it appeared to move against the background stars due to the parallax effect induced by the earth's orbital motion, confirming that it was much closer than distant stars.
Smaller objects may not be resolvable as anything more than points. The blink-comparator was how Pluto was discovered, by its motion against the background stars.