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I live in suburban perth, and have looked though a 7" Mak, 12" Dob, 10"dob, 8" dob, 12" LX200 and a ETX 125, they are all much of the muchness in the city. The thing that annoyed me with filters is the hue they impose on any other colors entering. but in saying that, this is what i would suggest.
Skyglow kills stars there for you need a goto system to view anything (how can you star hop with no stars to base off of) apart from the major nebule, stars and globs.
if you can get something like a 12" with Argo navis or some form of digital setting circles that would be best as your setup time is minimized. further more carting a 12" is dooable (make a trolly to move it around!).
Get yourself cirtain bandwith filters. LPF or UHCF, OIII, and cirtain others to give yourself the best chance of seeing stuff. Further more a few high quality eps to boot, like it has been said previously the 12 will give you good maginification though only in good seeing so if money isn't a option and weight factor can be got around.
- 12" solid tube/flex dob
- Argo Navis - push to system
- 0III, LPF, Nebula Filter
- 32mm UWA, 20mm UWA, 10mm UWA, 2x 2" ED barlow and a 5x Power mate (for really zooming in on planets).
With that setup you can see a whole lot of stuff galaxies included (i can do it with a 10" on a EQ6 with ease).
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