I have been looking at all your great suggestions and recently went out and checked out some telescopes and am happy to raise my budget a bit to $3500-$4000.
I would like to do astrophotography of deep sky objects (I have a Nikon D-7100). DSO's would be the thing i would like to photograph. The EQ6 with the ED120 looks good but i can't find anything else bigger than that for refractors... Do they come any bigger or would that be just fine? Also is that too big for the mount with the camera?
Thanks for any suggestions, much appreciated!