What are names of galaxy's?

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Just a name of a random galaxy you know

I already

got Milky Way
and Andromeda

what else?
 
Since "Davehuckleberry" took all the fun out of it, now I'm going to have to look some up and compare to his list.

Let's see, in Ursa Minor:
UGC 4682
UGC 8305
UGC 8312
...awww, heck, here's a fairly complete list of DSO's (click on the constellation you want, and select the catalogue you desire. Be sure only to include items categorized under the "type" column as "GAL" for your quest, as other categorized items are not galaxies.

http://www.starxref.com/data/dso_list.htm
 
Here is a list of many galaxies for you.
4C 37.11
Abell 1835 IR1916
AM 0644-741
Andromeda Galaxy (M31/NGC 224)
Andromeda I
Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038/NGC 4039)
Aquarius Dwarf
Arp 299 - pair of colliding galaxies; has six recorded supernovae (in total). This is composed of IC 694 and NGC 3690.
Baby Boom Galaxy
Black Eye Galaxy (M64/NGC 4826)
Bode's Galaxy (M81/NGC 3031)
Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy
Carina Dwarf
Centaurus A Galaxy
Cigar Galaxy (M82/NGC 3034)
Circinus Galaxy
Comet Galaxy
Draco Dwarf
Dwingeloo 1
Dwingeloo 2
Eyes Galaxies (NGC 4435-4438)
Fornax Dwarf
Hoag's object (a ring galaxy)
Huchra's Lens
HVC 127-41-330
IC 10
IC 342
IC 1613
IOK-1 - Farthest galaxy ever observed. (formed 750 million years after the Big Bang)
Large Magellanic Cloud
Leo I (dwarf galaxy)
Leo II (dwarf galaxy)
LGS 3
M32 (NGC 221)
M49
M58
M59
M60
M61
M65
M66
M74 (NGC 628)
M77
M84
M85
M86
M87
M88
M89
M90
M91
M94
M95
M96
M98
M99
M100 (NGC 4321)
M105
M106
M108
M109
M110 (NGC 205)
Maffei I
Maffei II
Mice Galaxies
Milky Way Galaxy - home galaxy of Earth, satellites
NGC 1
NGC 55
NGC 147
NGC 185
NGC 300
NGC 404
NGC 891
NGC 1055 - a galaxy near M77
NGC 1087 - a short-barred (i.e. it has a short bar) galaxy
NGC 1260
NGC 1275
NGC 1300
NGC 1316 (Fornax A Galaxy)
NGC 1365
NGC 1532
NGC 1569
NGC 1672 - a galaxy similar to NGC 1300
NGC 1705
NGC 2207 and IC 2163 - pair of colliding galaxies.
NGC 2403
NGC 2770 'Supernova Factory' the location of three supernovas since 1999
NGC 2812
NGC 2841
NGC 2976
NGC 3077
NGC 3079
NGC 3109
NGC 3184
NGC 3226
NGC 3227
NGC 3310
NGC 3314 - a galaxy overlapping another galaxy, thus constituting a galactic pair (i.e. the two are listed as a single object).
NGC 3370
NGC 3384
NGC 3628
NGC 3949 - part of M109 group
NGC 3953 - part of M109 group
NGC 3982 - part of M109 group
NGC 4013
NGC 4314
NGC 4395
NGC 4414
NGC 4555 - an isolated elliptical galaxy.
NGC 4565
NGC 4567 and NGC 4568 - also known as "Siamese Twins" or the Butterfly Galaxies.
NGC 4618/NGC 4625 - interacting galaxies, with each being asymmetric and having one spiral arm.
NGC 4881
NGC 4945
NGC 5033
NGC 5078
NGC 5090 and NGC 5091 - pair of colliding galaxies.
NGC 5195
NGC 6240
NGC 6822 (Barnards galaxy)
NGC 7331
NGC 7424
NGC 7742
Pegasus Dwarf
Phoenix Dwarf
Pinwheel Galaxy (M101/NGC 5457)
RXJ1242-11
Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy
Sculptor Dwarf
Sculptor Galaxy
Sextans A
Sextans Dwarf
Small Magellanic Cloud
Sombrero Galaxy (M104)
Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (M83/NGC 5236)
Spindle Galaxy
Spindle Galaxy in Draco (NGC 5866, possibly M102)
Spindle Galaxy in Sextans (NGC 3115)
Spiral Galaxy ESO 269-57
Sunflower Galaxy (M63)
Triangulum Galaxy (M33/NGC 598)
Tucana Dwarf
UGC 5675
Ursa Major I Dwarf
Ursa Major II Dwarf
Ursa Minor Dwarf
VIRGOHI21
Virgo Stellar Stream
Whirlpool Galaxy (M51/NGC 5194)
Willman 1
Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte (WLM)
I Zwicky 18
ZW II 96
This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. There are thought to be over 500 billion galaxies in our Universe so it would take forever to be able to isolate each and everyone and then name them all.
 
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