Thank you to everyone who commented! I rethought what I was doing and chose one image to work with. Created a virtual copy in LR and processed the two differenetly for light and shadow then HDR in LR , readjusted the result, took into ps, enlarged, brought back to LR , made some other adjustments. Then enlarged a different shot that was very dark but had a sun star. Exported both as layers to photoshop and used some of the sun star from the dark version in the finished product via a mask.
This is the result. I am much happier with it. No anomalies!
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