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Sham
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Its story
Sham is the head of the little Arrow, one of the tiniest constellations in the sky, already catalogued by Ptolemy. Its name, from the Arabic «As-Sahm», means precisely «the arrow». It is a yellow G-type giant 425 light-years away: the light seen tonight set out when Cervantes had just published the first part of Don Quixote. The Arrow crosses the Milky Way like a dart thrown by some forgotten hand, piercing the river of stars of the northern summer.
- Constellation
- Sagitta
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.39
- Distance
- 425.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 295.024° · Dec 18.014°
- Catalogue
- HIP 96757 · HD 185758
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