Galaxies detected by the Dwingeloo Obscured Galaxies Survey

The Dwingeloo Obscured Galaxies Survey (DOGS) is a 21-cm blind survey for g alaxies hidden in the northern 'Zone of Avoidance' (ZOA): the portion of th e optical extragalactic sky which is obscured by dust in the Milky Way. Lik e the Parkes southern hemisphere ZOA survey, the DOGS project is designed t o reveal hidden dynamically important nearby galaxies and to help 'fill in the blanks' in the local large scale structure. To date, 36 galaxies have b een detected by the Dwingeloo survey; 23 of these were previously unknown [ no corresponding sources recorded in the NASA Extragalactic Database (NED)] . Among the interesting detections are three nearby galaxies in the vicinit y of NGC 6946 and 11 detections in the Supergalactic plane crossing region. VLA follow-up observations have been conducted for several of the DOGS det ections.