Francis Leavenworth, Frank Muller and Ormond Stone discovered 19 NGC and 5 IC galaxies south of dec -25 between 1885 and 1889 with a 26" refractor from McCormick Observatory Charlottesville, VA, USA.
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Charlottesville is about 2 hours drive (185km) SW of Washington DC.
http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/n...eavenworth.htm
http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/n...ons/muller.htm
http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/n...sons/stone.htm
The brightest galaxy was Stone's NGC 3313 mag 11.4.
The most southerly galaxy was Leavenworth's NGC 7187 at dec -32.8.