Drawing Graphics on a Windows Form Problems

I have 2 graphics I draw onto a form.

1 Graphic is a Randomly Generated Star Field, these stars move, and are updated every tick on a timer(50ms)

Once the stars have been drawn/updated a cockpit is overlayed onto this image to give the appearance of moving through space.

The problem I am having is that the stars are drawn onto the cockpit of the previous iteration of the loop giving the allusion that the stars are in the ship.

I have not a clue how to solve this and would love any advice. I have tried making it redraw the cockpit after it updates each star, this just makes updating the stars take too long.

One option is to kill each star once it reaches the edge of the cockpit's "window" I fear though that this would cause an equal problem with delay as it would have to check many conditons as the cockpit window is not even in shape.

A friend has suggested double buffering - I have only ever came across this as an option in VS to Enable or Disable.

Any help would be appreciated, especially in regards to if Double Buffering is the way to go.

I can provide the code if need be it is just obnoxiously long and makes the post look quite messy.

Thank you in advance.

Tags: Visual Basic, Graphics