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newjersey - removing streaks and a few bright lights is a simple matter of using either the Clone Stamp tool or using the Healing Brush tool. Typically you want to add a new blank layer on top of your background layer and use that as a retouching layer. You can set the Cloning Stamp to a setting called "Use this layer and below" and the Healing Brush to a setting called "Use All Layers". That way, you can do you retouching on this new additional layer and never touch your original background layer, which makes it easy to go back if you screw up the retouching - which pretty much always happens anyway.
As far as bringing out the stars, that's mostly a matter of adding contrast to the sky - making the sky darker while actually making the stars themselves brighter. I used the Curves tool to do that, but I also made a copy of the the entire file and converted that to Lab color space and used Curves in that color space to affect the color changes forcing the sky to go much darker and bluer at the top and warmer at the bottom. At the same time, that left the snow cooler as well which seemed to fit the mood of the image.
Could this have been done in Lr? Others will have to answer that because I don't use that program, but it's certainly easy enough to do in Ps - with enough practice. I actually think that with this type of image, it might actually be fun for you to start learning how to do some of these moves in Ps and see your own images transform right before your own eyes on your own screen. And if one were working with the original raw files, appropriate processing of those in the beginning would make the post production faster and easier.
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