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.

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)