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Vespucci found the Magellanic Clouds in 1501 during his second expedition (20 years earlier than Magellan). Thus he is the very discoverer of NGC 292 (SMC); see: Dekker, E., The Light and the Dark: A Reassessment of the Discovery of the Coalsack Nebula, the Magellanic Clouds and the Southern Cross, Ann. of Sci. 47, 529-560 (1990). Only the Small Magellanic Cloud is in the NGC. The other one was too large for Dreyer to include it in the catalogue.
| D | N | NI | Y | I | T | Observer | Name | Con | Type | S | Author | Title | Source |
| 1 | N | 292 | 1501 | E | v | Magellan 1521 | Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) | TUC | SBm | 1 | Vespucci, A. | Mundus Novus 1504 | Dekker, E., Ann. of Sci. 47, 529-560 (1990) |
