Peter Quinn
The name 'Celestial Disorder' was chosen initially to represent the disordered approach I took to shooting, processing and cataloguing my astro images.
When I started, in 2015, my equipment was basic, my patience limited, my skills in their infancy and my skies were far from clear. I was living in London, felt lost and directionless, and standing in the dark while looking up helped me realise that my problems were miniscule within the cosmos. I dabbled with some Moon and murky Milky Way shots and tried to snatch some noisy images of deep sky objects, then life got in the way and my hobby was tucked up to sleep.
In 2025, when life felt fairly overwhelmed again, my hobby awoke. I had new equipment, darker skies and a stronger desire to improve and capture all that I could. Recently, I've been thinking of 'Celestial Disorder' as the name for my obsession with astrophotography. Building this site and cataloguing the images while doing so feels like the natural next step towards improvement. I've been forced to reprocess a lot of old data and have tried to make the final images as good as possible, by my current standards. Having a few weeks of cloudy skies has afforded me this time. Some shots on here are admittedly terrible, but they'll serve as placeholders that I'll hopefully be able to improve on in the future, when time, weather and kids allow.