Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Beta Arietisis a star in the constellation Aries, marking the Ram's second horn. It has the traditional name Sheratan, and the Flamsteed designation 6 Arietis. The traditional name, in full Al Sharatan, is from the Arabic "the two signs", a reference to the star having marked the vernal equinox together with its binary partner Gamma Arietis several thousand years ago. It has an observed visual magnitude of +2.66. Its MK spectral type is A5V It is 59.6 light years from Earth. This star is a spectroscopic binary. The companion orbits every 107 days with an unusually large eccentricity of 0.88. Based on the estimated mass of the companion, it is probably a G-class star.