--- name: Sham (α Sge) constellation: Sge created_by: editor.cs created_date: 2023-11-05 15:42:10.136979 updated_by: editor.cs updated_date: 2023-11-05 15:42:10.136983 --- The name, introduced about 200 years ago by Giuseppe Piazzi, an Italian astronomer who discovered the first asteroid Ceres, is based on the ancient Arabic name Sahm - arrow. This yellow giant of spectral class G0 has a brightness of 4.4mag and is located 382ly away. It has four faint companions.