Andrew Ainslie Common

 

Obituary: MNRAS 64, 274 (1904); Obs. 26, 304 (1903); PASP 15, 209 (1903); Proc. Roy. Soc. 75, 313 (1905); AN 162, 354 (1903)

Common found 42 NGC-objects visually, using his 36" f/5.9 reflector at Ealing, UK; 34 were new. All objects (galaxies) were found in 1880 and listed in: Common, A. A., New Nebulae, Copernicus I, 50 (1882).The mirror was made by George Calver and the telescope was erected in 1879, replacing the 18" reflector build in 1876. The 36" was later sold to Edward Crossley (Halifax) and was installed in 1895 at new Lick Observatory (Mt. Hamilton), than known as the "Crossley Reflector" (used by Keeler).

D N NI Y M D Ap I T Discoverer Observer Con Type S ID List
1 N 3143 1880     36,0 Rl v     HYA SBb 1   1
1 N 3280 1880     36,0 Rl v     HYA E-S0 1 NGC 3295 (Leavenworth 26.2.1886)
IC 617 (Javelle 19.4.1892)
2
1 N 3322 1880     36,0 Rl v     SEX Sc 1 NGC 3321 (Leavenworth 3.1.1887) 3
1 N 3360 1880     36,0 Rl v     SEX Sc 1   4
1 N 3361 1880     36,0 Rl v     SEX SBc 1   4
1 N 3388 1880     36,0 Rl v     LEO S0 7 NGC 3425 (Herschel W. 17.4.1784) 5
1 N 3402 1880     36,0 Rl v     HYA E0 7 NGC 3411 (Herschel W. 25.3.1786) 6
1 N 3404 1880     36,0 Rl v     HYA SBab 1 IC 2609 (Bigourdan 19.4.1898) 7
1 N 3421 1880     36,0 Rl v     HYA Sa/P 1 IC 652 (Javelle 19.4.1892) 8
1 N 3422 1880     36,0 Rl v     CRT S0-a 1   8
1 N 3429 1880     36,0 Rl v     LEO SBb 7 NGC 3428 (Marth 25.3.1865) 9
1 N 3452 1880     36,0 Rl v     CRT Sa 1   10
1 N 3480 1880     36,0 Rl v     LEO E1 7 NGC 3476 (Marth 25.3.1865) 11
1 N 3490 1880     36,0 Rl v     LEO E0 1   12
  N 3537 1880     36,0 Rl v Tempel 7.2.1878   CRT Sab 1   13
  N 3541 1880     36,0 Rl v Tempel 7.2.1878   CRT Scd 1   14
  N 3636 1880     36,0 Rl v Herschel W. 4.3.1786   CRT E0 1   15
  N 3637 1880     36,0 Rl v Herschel W. 4.3.1786   CRT SB0 1   15
1 N 3663 1880     36,0 Rl v     CRT Sbc 1   16
1 N 3688 1880     36,0 Rl v   Leavenworth 1886 CRT Sb 1   17
  N 3704 1880     36,0 Rl v Tempel 23.2.1878   CRT E1 1   18
  N 3707 1880     36,0 Rl v Tempel 23.2.1878   CRT E3 1   18
1 N 3722 1880     36,0 Rl v   Leavenworth 1886 CRT E1 1   20
1 N 3723 1880     36,0 Rl v     CRT E-S0 1   19
1 N 3724 1880     36,0 Rl v   Leavenworth 1886 CRT S0-a 1   20
  N 3732 1880     36,0 Rl v Herschel W. 4.3.1786   CRT SB0-a 1   20
1 N 3763 1880     36,0 Rl v     CRT SBc 1 IC 714 (Leavenworth 25.2.1887) 21
1 N 3775 1880     36,0 Rl v     CRT S0-a 1   22
1 N 3779 1880     36,0 Rl v     CRT Scd 1 IC 717 (Muller 14.2.1888) 22
1 N 3865 1880     36,0 Rl v     CRT SBb 1 NGC 3854 (Leavenworth 1886) 23
1 N 3866 1880     36,0 Rl v     CRT Sa 1 NGC 3858 (Leavenworth 1886) 23
1 N 3905 1880     36,0 Rl v   Stone 1886 CRT SBbc 1   24
  N 4240 1880     36,0 Rl v Tempel 20.5.1875   VIR E1 1 NGC 4243 (Swift L. 27.4.1886) 25
1 N 7528 1880 8   36,0 Rl v     PEG E3 1   26
1 N 7594 1880 8   36,0 Rl v     PEG Sb 1 IC 1478 (Bigourdan 22.8.1889) 27
1 N 7595 1880 8   36,0 Rl v     PEG E0 1   28
1 N 7601 1880 8 4 36,0 Rl v     PEG SBbc 1   29
1 N 7610 1880 8   36,0 Rl v     PEG SBc 1 NGC 7616 (Common 8.1880) 30
1 N 7616 1880 8   36,0 Rl v     PEG SBc 7 NGC 7610 (Common 8.1880) 31
1 N 7630 1880 8 8 36,0 Rl v     PEG S? 1   32
1 N 7638 1880 8 8 36,0 Rl v     PEG S 1 IC 1483 (Javelle 2.12.1893) 32
1 N 7639 1880 8 8 36,0 Rl v     PEG E-S0 1 IC 1485 (Javelle 2.12.1893) 32

36" f/5.9 Calver-Reflector at Ealing, UK

(later becoming the "Crossley-Reflector" at Lick)

60" f/5.7 Reflector

(as later erected at Harvard College Observatory)