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Andrew Ainslie Common

1841 - 1903

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Andrew Ainslie Common FRS (1841–1903) was an English amateur astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astrophotography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrew Ainslie Common has received more than 33,893 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Andrew Ainslie Common is the 541st most popular astronomer, the 4,856th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 64th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Andrew Ainslie Common ranks 541 out of 644. Before him are Charles Augustus Young, Kiichirō Furukawa, Ruby Payne-Scott, Seiji Ueda, Mary Proctor, and Lawrence H. Aller. After him are Walter Frederick Gale, Gary Hug, György Kulin, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Miguel Itzigsohn, and Vera Gaze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Andrew Ainslie Common ranks 97. Before him are Nelson W. Aldrich, James Gordon Bennett Jr., Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Kliment of Tarnovo, Chrétien Waydelich, and Mary Arthur McElroy. After him are Julio Herrera y Obes, Charles Sprague Sargent, and Blanche Bruce. Among people deceased in 1903, Andrew Ainslie Common ranks 72. Before him are Nikolai Bugaev, János Fadrusz, Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen, Rafael Zaldívar, Gaspar Núñez de Arce, and Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin. After him are Edwin Lord Weeks, Charles Ammi Cutter, Herbert Vaughan, and Alexander Ramsey.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Andrew Ainslie Common ranks 4,856 out of 8,785. Before him are Mark Mazower (1958), Nick Land (1962), Michael Winterbottom (1961), Graeme Obree (1965), Charles Rosher (1885), and Mackenzie Bowell (1823). After him are Æthelberht II of East Anglia (800), Dawn French (1957), Guy Berryman (1978), Derek Kevan (1935), Richard Ashcroft (1971), and David Storey (1933).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Andrew Ainslie Common ranks 64. Before him are Patrick Moore (1923), David C. Jewitt (1958), James Challis (1803), William Christie (1845), John Pond (1767), and Robert H. McNaught (1956). After him are Thomas Brisbane (1773), Richard A. Proctor (1837), James Ferguson (1710), Madge Adam (1912), Arnold Wolfendale (1927), and Richard van der Riet Woolley (1906).

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