Its true you're right up against it with your signal to noise ratio from the city Casey, but if you have a spot you can set up with half decent horizons, you can still image a lot, especially with a light pollution filter. You have to remember that you'll still learn a heck of a lot about the art of imaging (good setup, alignment, guiding, tracking, software automation). Processing is probaby 50% of the hobby too, so you really appreciate data collected from dark skies if you can calibrate city images and cope with their gradients etc.
Although I try to do really deep objects from dark skys, I feel very uncomfortable setting up remotely if I haven't had a few good sessions in the backyard recently to make sure my gear (and my brain!
) are working spot on.
Looks like you have a modded Canon, so theoretically you should be able to do some NB. Ha definitely worth a go if you can foot the bill.