  The Dwingeloo Obscured Galaxies Survey (DOGS) is a 21-cm blind survey for
galaxies hidden in the northern "Zone of Avoidance" (ZOA): the portion of the
optical extragalactic sky which is obscured by dust in the Milky Way. Like the
Parkes southern hemisphere ZOA survey, the DOGS project is designed to reveal
hidden dynamically important nearby galaxies and to help "fill in the blanks"
in the local large scale structure.
  To date, 36 galaxies have been 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 3 nearby
galaxies in the vicinity of NGC 6946 and 11 detections in the Supergalactic
plane crossing region. VLA follow-up observations have been conducted for
several of the DOGS detections.
