I first used your brightness chart, set my screen brightness following the instructions and then I went to view your image I nearly blinded myself on the whites and blues of IIS
As for the galaxy, very very nice! Like M&T, I lost count on the amount of smaller galaxies scattered throughout the field.
As for AO, deformable mirrors are actually more difficult in a 32" telescope than the telescopes they're traditionally used on which have secondary mirrors LARGER than 32"
On the consumer level AO like what some of us mere mortals use, they work at there best when under the seeing conditions that us mere mortals are using them under. AO from SBIG and SX not only correct for tracking errors (this is their biggest correction), on nights of what WE would consider good seeing they also help correct for the slower moving convection currents within the atmosphere. These tend to be on the scale of a few seconds rather than the 10ms timescales that wavefront correctors are made at. The CHART-32 team rarely have to deal with these kinds of convection currents as they've above them.