Hello Brandon! Greetings from Pittsburgh.
Most of the area is a Bortle 8/9, depending on where your target is located according to your relative position you may get usable results. For example, don’t expect to get a great view of the Helix nebula from the city (I live in northern Pittsburgh, photographing southern facing targets when having to point towards the city doesn’t work out so good). The best thing would be to travel to a darker site, I would recommend the Allegheny National Forest area, or north-central PA near Potter County or below (cherry springs). My personal favorite is Spruce Knob, WV and if you live in the city, it’s relatively equal distance between cherry and spruce (~4 hrs). You can go to
https://darksitefinder.com and look for the light pollution map for a visual representation of your local area.
If you are not a traveler, you will have some difficulty on DSO’s and fainter objects in the city, but can try using an Orion SkyGlow filter or a Lumicon UHC (I heard the astronomik UHC is good too). These filters should be available in 1.25” size. Emission nebula and Ha-rich targets will be difficult because the wavelengths in which those targets are viewable are sharing space with the orange-reds from the street lights.
Clear skies!
