Hi Doug, that's a beautiful and very deep image. I love it.
Everything's relative I guess. I'd aspire to do images as good as yours, but I could never find someone else's excellent images a substitute for my own mediocre ones...you can't beat having done something yourself I reckon.
Let yourself drift back to the Bass (my neglected Ibanez was calling me from the corner of the bedroom this morning
).... you'll be back! I've lost count the amount of times I drifted away from Astro in the last 30 years but I always drift back. Actually right now I find myself more occupied with the Canon 40D for a new hobby in terrestrial (particularly macro) photography... who knows what next
Good Luck,
Rob