Discovery of the Local Group Galaxies

Galaxy		Discovery	Discoverer; independent discoveries or remarks

Milky Way       pre-hist        1923 Hubble: a galaxy
LMC             pre-hist        Southern Hemisphere; 1519 Magellan
SMC (NGC 292)   pre-hist        Southern Hemisphere; 1519 Magellan
M 31             905 AD	        Al-Sufi; 1612 S. Marius
M 33           <1654            Hodierna; 1764 Sep 2 Messier
M 32            1749 Oct 29     Le Gentil
M110            1773 Aug 10     Messier; 1783 Aug 27 Caroline Herschel
NGC 185         1787 Nov 30     W Herschel: H II.707; h 35, GC 90; LG: 1944 Baade
NGC 147         1829 Sep  8     J Herschel: h 29, GC 72; LG: 1944 Baade
NGC 3109        1835 Mar 24     John Herschel (h 3221)
NGC 6822        1884            Barnard; LG: 192. Hubble
IC 10           1889            Swift VII (Astr Nachr 2859)
IC 1613         1906            Max Wolf; LG: 1928 Baade
IC 5152         1908            Delisle Stewart (D.S. 732)
WLM             1909            Max Wolf; 1926 Lundmark-Melotte: Galaxy
Scl Dw          1937            Shapley
For Dw          1938            Shapley
Leo A (III)     1942            Zwicky; LG cand: 1959? van den Bergh
Sex A           1942            Zwicky
Leo I           1950            Harrington, Wilson (Wilson)
Leo II          1950            Harrington, Wilson (Harrington)
UMi Dw          1954            Wilson
Dra Dw          1954            Wilson
GR 8            1956            Gibson-Reeves (Lick)
Peg Dw          195.            Wilson
Sex B           19..            
Aqr Dw          1966            van den Bergh
And I           1970            van den Bergh
And II          1970            van den Bergh
And III         1970            van den Bergh
UGCA 86         1974            Nilson
UGCA 92         1974            Nilson
Phe Dw          1976            Schuster, West; Galaxy: 1977 Canterna, Flower
Car Dw          1977            Cannon, Hawarden, Tritton (UKS)
Sgr Dw, SagDIG  1977            Cesarsky, Lequeux, Laustsen, Schuster, West
LGS 3           1978            Kowal, Lo, Sargent (Hale); conf. 1979 Thuan, Martin 
UKS2323-326     1978            Longmore et.al. (UKS)
Ant Dw          1985            Feitzinger, Galinski; LG: 1997 May Whiting, Irwin, Hau
Sex Dw          1990 Mar        M.J. Irwin
Tuc Dw          1990 Nov        R.J. Lavery
SagDEG          1994 Jul        Ibata, Gilmore, Irwin
And V           1998            Armandroff, Davies, Jacoby (NOA0)
And VI          1998            Armandroff, Davies, Jacoby (NOAO)
And VII         1998            Karachentsev/Karachentseva
Cet Dw          1999 Jun 4      Whiting, Hau, Irwin
And VIII        2003 Aug        Morrison, Harding, Hurley-Keller, Jacoby
CMa Dw          2003 Nov        Martin, Ibata, Bellazzini, Irwin, Lewis, Dehnen
And IX          2004            Zucker et.al.
And X           2005            Zucker et.al.

Willman 1       2004
UMa I           2005
UMa II          2006
Vir Stream      
CVn I           2006
Boo dw          2006
Leo T           2006
Com dw          2006
CVn II          2006
Her dw          2006
Leo IV          2006

And XI          2006 
And XII         2006
And XIII        2006 
And XIV         2007

Segue 2         2007
Boo II          2007
Leo V           2007
Boo III         2009
Pis II          2010

And XV          2007
And XVI         2007
And XVII        2008
And XVIII       2008
And XIX         2008 
And XX          2008
And XXI         2009
And XXII        2009
And XXIII       2011
And XXIV        2011
And XXV         2011
And XXVI        2011
And XXVII       2011
And XXVIII      2011
And XXIX        2011

And NE          2004

NGC 404         1784 Sep 13     W. Herschel (H. II.224)
NGC 1569        1788 Nov  4     W. Herschel (H. II.768)
NGC 55          1826 Aug  4     Dunlop (Dun 507)
NGC 1560        1882            Tempel IX (AN No. 2660)
Argo dw(Car II) 1980            Corwin, de Vaucouleurs, de Vaucouleurs; 1997 Whiting, Irwin, Hau
Cam A           19..

NGC 6946        1798 Sep  9     W. Herschel
IC 342          18..            Denning
UMa dw, Pal 4   1949            Hubble; 1950 Wilson
Ser dw, Pal 5   1950            Baade; 1955 Wilson
Sex C, Pal 3    1952            Wilson, Baade
Cap dw, Pal 12  1953            Harrington/Zwicky
Maffei 1        1968            Maffei
Maffei 2        1968            Maffei
And IV          1970            van den Bergh; 1991: Not a galaxy; 2000: Remote galaxy
SDIG            1977            Lautsen et.al. (ESO)
LGS 2           1978            Kowal, Lo, Sargent (Hale); dismissed 1981 Van den Bergh, Racine
2318-42         1982            Longmore et.al. (UKS)