is luminance worth it on Dark Nebulae?

[jjosefsen]

Hi,

I am shooting LDN 1235 at the moment, and I was considering just doing R,G,B and forgoing luminance and just creating a synthetic luminance from the R,G,B subs later.

I've done similar things before with pretty good results: https://www.astrobin.com/full/412663/B/?nc=user

I really want to catch the faint colors of the reflection nebulae and the brown dust in this object, and was thinking that going really deep on all the color channels would do that, and possibly not missing much as it doesn't appear there is too much fine contrasty detail to be had..

 

Opinions would be very welcome. :)