Andrew Ainslie Common

Andrew Ainslie Common FRS was an English amateur astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astrophotography.

Common was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne onAugust 1841. His father, Thomas Common, a surgeon known for his treatment of cataract, died when Andrew was a child forcing him to go early into the world of work. In the 1860s he teamed up with an uncle in the sanitary engineering firm of Matthew Hall and Company. He married in 1867. In 1890 he retired from Matthew Hall. Andrew Ainslie Common died of heart failureJune 1903.

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