| NGC 4571 | |
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| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Coma Berenices |
| Right ascension | 12h 36m 56.4s[1] |
| Declination | +14° 13′ 02″[1] |
| Redshift | 342 ± 3 km/s[1] |
| Distance | 58 ± 11 Mly (17.7 ± 3.4 Mpc) |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 11.8[1] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SA(r)d[1] |
| Apparent size (V) | 3.6′ × 3.2′[1] |
| Other designations | |
| NGC 4571, IC 3588[1] UGC 7788,[1] PGC 42100, VCC 1696[1] | |
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NGC 4571 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Coma Berenices that William Herschel thought was Messier 91 in Charles Messier' catalog of deep-sky objects,[2] before nearly two centuries later that object was determined to be the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 4548.