Dealing with bright mag 6 star in middle of dim galaxy field

[javajunkie2121]

Hi All:

I've got some longer exposure frames of a dim galaxy group, which unfortunately has one magnitude 6 star right in the middle that's very very saturated.  I was wondering how folks deal with this type of situation: 

- using different degrees of stretch and combining them using a mask (i'm afraid I'll lose other faint stars)?
OR
- trying GradientHDRComposition/HDRComposition and combining images of different exposures akin to that used for M42?

or some other way to replace this super saturated star in the longer exposures?

jeff

[Alejandro Tombolini]

Hi Jeff, you need images of different exposure times and make HDR.
Saludos, Alejandro.

[javajunkie2121]

awesome..thanks for the quick reply Alejandro