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Hi Dave,
If you are using a DSI Pro then there was no need to reduce the actual dimensions of your image, just the size of the file (the space it uses on the hard drive). A high to medium quality jpg would be fine.
If you had good color data in the shot to begin with using a DSI color you shouldn't have had to push the red that hard if at all to make the orion nebula show its color. Light pollution or not enough data could be something that's going on, but I can't say for sure.
Focusing will be more difficult with bad seeing. Even if you were as close as you could get to perfect focus with bad seeing the image would still appear softer than if you had steady skies, unless your post processing skills are good then you may have a hard time telling the difference.
I for one try and get the best shot I can with the telescope and camera and then do the least amount of processing I can get away with. Sometimes nothing will bring an image back from the depths and then its time to move on and try again. When I go out to image I never know if I am going to get something worth keeping (to me) or not.
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