G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
Sham
Sham is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Sagitta 425 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,351 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 260× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 425 years ago.
Also catalogued as Alpha Sge · HR 7479 · HD 185758 · HIP 96757
5,351 K
temperature
4.39
apparent magnitude
260× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G0II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
425 years
at light speed from Earth
0.93×
as hot as the Sun
260×
the Sun's light output
-1.19
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.