If the seeing is bad. I just use less magnification. For reasons mentioned by Steffen I will almost always prefer my 12" over my 4" regardless of the seeing.
Besides, I've seen so many arguments on CloudyNights about seeing supporting certain aperture scopes more or less that it would seem that there is no conclusive proof that a certain scope size is better in bad seeing.
There are those 'murican fractor nuts who swear that their 80mm APO cuts through the seeing like a knife through butter, and those with large reflectors rebutting that regardless of seeing they still see more.
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