Meade or Celestron?

[Cosmic Geoff]

From a city you can most easily telescopically see objects of high surface brightness.  That includes the Moon, planets, double stars and some globular clusters.  You will see very few galaxies unless you go in for EEVA (q.v)

1 hour ago, Goldfinger said:

Something else I was thinking about. Since I live and plan on using the telescope on the rooftop of my apartment building in the city, how difficult would it be to manually locate three objects with the celestron nextstar 6se? Can you actually manually locate three objects in the sky at night with the light pollution?

That should be easy to check before you do anything else.  If you can't see three bright objects with your unaided eyes, you may as well give up the whole idea now. If you go up there and count how many stars you can see, that will give us all some idea of the severity of the problem.

 

2 hours ago, Goldfinger said:

It's fairly well lighted up at night and I'm wondering how much that will affect my viewing.

Any nearby lights, e.g. on the roof, will have some adverse effect.  The less ambient light you have to contend with , the better.

[Jiggy 67]

5 hours ago, Goldfinger said:

have an apartment in downtown St Louis, Missouri

You might be interested in this location near you 

 

[Goldfinger]

Hi Everyone

Id like to thank everyone who replied to this topic. Have certainly learned a lot from the various comments, advice, etc.. I now have a much better idea on how to proceed with this "project".

Thanks again.

Steve