Aberration of light

Optical aberration - phenomenon in astronomy. Article “Aberration (astronomy)” in English Wikipedia has 69.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 58 references and 25 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.73 points.

This article has the best quality in Ukrainian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Aberration (astronomy)” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Aberration (astronomy)”, its content was written by 192 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 903 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 141 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1028 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1056 in September 2001
• Global: #1385 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #46304 in December 2016
• Global: #61379 in December 2016

There are 42 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Ukrainian (uk) Аберація світла		72.533
2	English (en) Aberration (astronomy)		69.5341
3	Spanish (es) Aberración de la luz		58.1186
4	Portuguese (pt) Aberração da luz		48.0394
5	Indonesian (id) Aberasi cahaya		45.6568
6	German (de) Aberration (Astronomie)		36.5443
7	Norwegian (no) Aberrasjon (astronomi)		32.8754
8	Polish (pl) Aberracja światła		30.7083
9	Russian (ru) Аберрация света		28.8489
10	Latin (la) Aberratio		28.7117

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Aberration (astronomy)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Aberration (astronomy)		822 996
2	German (de) Aberration (Astronomie)		261 470
3	Russian (ru) Аберрация света		244 012
4	French (fr) Aberration de la lumière		132 929
5	Spanish (es) Aberración de la luz		117 934
6	Italian (it) Aberrazione della luce		117 052
7	Japanese (ja) 光行差		116 859
8	Polish (pl) Aberracja światła		115 355
9	Chinese (zh) 光行差		42 196
10	Portuguese (pt) Aberração da luz		33 850

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Aberration (astronomy)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Aberration (astronomy)		2 641
2	German (de) Aberration (Astronomie)		661
3	Russian (ru) Аберрация света		378
4	French (fr) Aberration de la lumière		350
5	Japanese (ja) 光行差		245
6	Spanish (es) Aberración de la luz		234
7	Polish (pl) Aberracja światła		185
8	Chinese (zh) 光行差		173
9	Italian (it) Aberrazione della luce		160
10	Portuguese (pt) Aberração da luz		72

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Aberration (astronomy)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Aberration (astronomy)		192
2	German (de) Aberration (Astronomie)		87
3	French (fr) Aberration de la lumière		76
4	Russian (ru) Аберрация света		59
5	Italian (it) Aberrazione della luce		51
6	Spanish (es) Aberración de la luz		50
7	Polish (pl) Aberracja światła		36
8	Croatian (hr) Aberacija svjetlosti		27
9	Hungarian (hu) Csillagászati aberráció		25
10	Portuguese (pt) Aberração da luz		22

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Aberration (astronomy)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Aberration (astronomy)		2
2	Arabic (ar) زيغ (فلك)		1
3	German (de) Aberration (Astronomie)		1
4	Persian (fa) انحراف نور		1
5	French (fr) Aberration de la lumière		1
6	Norwegian (no) Aberrasjon (astronomi)		1
7	Belarusian (be) Аберацыя святла		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Аберация (астрономия)		0
9	Catalan (ca) Aberració de la llum		0
10	Czech (cs) Aberace (astronomie)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Aberration (astronomy)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Aberration (astronomy)		141
2	Polish (pl) Aberracja światła		125
3	German (de) Aberration (Astronomie)		74
4	Russian (ru) Аберрация света		71
5	French (fr) Aberration de la lumière		64
6	Spanish (es) Aberración de la luz		50
7	Ukrainian (uk) Аберація світла		41
8	Chinese (zh) 光行差		37
9	Japanese (ja) 光行差		36
10	Italian (it) Aberrazione della luce		32

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic زيغ (فلك)
be	Belarusian Аберацыя святла
bg	Bulgarian Аберация (астрономия)
ca	Catalan Aberració de la llum
cs	Czech Aberace (astronomie)
de	German Aberration (Astronomie)
en	English Aberration (astronomy)
eo	Esperanto Aberacio (astronomio)
es	Spanish Aberración de la luz
et	Estonian Aberratsioon (astronoomia)
fa	Persian انحراف نور
fi	Finnish Aberraatio (tähtitiede)
fr	French Aberration de la lumière
gl	Galician Aberración da luz
he	Hebrew אברציה כוכבית
hr	Croatian Aberacija svjetlosti
hu	Hungarian Csillagászati aberráció
hy	Armenian Լույսի շեղում
id	Indonesian Aberasi cahaya
it	Italian Aberrazione della luce
ja	Japanese 光行差
ka	Georgian სინათლის აბერაცია
ko	Korean 광행차
la	Latin Aberratio
lt	Lithuanian Šviesos aberacija
nl	Dutch Aberratie (astronomie)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Aberrasjon i astronomi
no	Norwegian Aberrasjon (astronomi)
pl	Polish Aberracja światła
pt	Portuguese Aberração da luz
ro	Romanian Aberația luminii
ru	Russian Аберрация света
sh	Serbo-Croatian Aberacija svjetlosti
sk	Slovak Aberácia (astronómia)
sr	Serbian Аберација (астрономија)
sv	Swedish Aberration (astronomi)
th	Thai ความคลาดทางดาราศาสตร์
tr	Turkish Sapma (astronomi)
uk	Ukrainian Аберація світла
uz	Uzbek Aberratsiya (astronomiya)
vi	Vietnamese Quang sai (thiên văn học)
zh	Chinese 光行差

Best Rank

English: #46304 12.2016

Global: #61379 12.2016

Best Rank

English: #1056 09.2001

Global: #1385 09.2001

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