Celestial navigation

Celestial navigation - navigation using astronomical objects to determine position. Article "Celestial navigation" in English Wikipedia has 47.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 26 references and 10 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Since the creation of article "Celestial navigation", its content was written by 229 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 813 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 868 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2153 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1071 in November 2002
• Global: #3242 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #65242 in December 2012
• Global: #72204 in January 2014

There are 36 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, 2025 (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	German (de) Astronomische Navigation		52.5349
2	English (en) Celestial navigation		47.8988
3	Catalan (ca) Navegació astronòmica		38.3609
4	Dutch (nl) Astronavigatie		35.6151
5	Turkish (tr) Göksel navigasyon		32.0814
6	Croatian (hr) Astronavigacija		27.7324
7	French (fr) Navigation astronomique		24.5943
8	Basque (eu) Nabigazio astronomiko		23.9905
9	Spanish (es) Navegación astronómica		21.9598
10	Hungarian (hu) Csillagászati navigáció		20.6348

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Celestial navigation" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Celestial navigation		2 252 283
2	German (de) Astronomische Navigation		410 062
3	Japanese (ja) 天測航法		257 713
4	Russian (ru) Астрономическая навигация		211 423
5	French (fr) Navigation astronomique		206 129
6	Polish (pl) Astronawigacja		110 559
7	Italian (it) Navigazione astronomica		76 266
8	Arabic (ar) ملاحة فلكية		60 829
9	Portuguese (pt) Navegação astronômica		57 270
10	Dutch (nl) Astronavigatie		57 003

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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 "Celestial navigation" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Celestial navigation		9 053
2	German (de) Astronomische Navigation		1 337
3	Japanese (ja) 天測航法		1 114
4	Russian (ru) Астрономическая навигация		617
5	French (fr) Navigation astronomique		546
6	Simple English (simple) Celestial navigation		202
7	Polish (pl) Astronawigacja		187
8	Spanish (es) Navegación astronómica		185
9	Italian (it) Navigazione astronomica		184
10	Finnish (fi) Astronominen navigointi		171

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Celestial navigation		229
2	German (de) Astronomische Navigation		129
3	French (fr) Navigation astronomique		56
4	Russian (ru) Астрономическая навигация		54
5	Hebrew (he) ניווט אסטרונומי		30
6	Italian (it) Navigazione astronomica		30
7	Dutch (nl) Astronavigatie		29
8	Norwegian (no) Astronomisk navigasjon		29
9	Catalan (ca) Navegació astronòmica		28
10	Polish (pl) Astronawigacja		24

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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 "Celestial navigation" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Astronomische Navigation		1
2	Arabic (ar) ملاحة فلكية		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Астрономическа навигация		0
4	Catalan (ca) Navegació astronòmica		0
5	Czech (cs) Astronavigace		0
6	Greek (el) Αστρονομική ναυσιπλοΐα		0
7	English (en) Celestial navigation		0
8	Spanish (es) Navegación astronómica		0
9	Estonian (et) Astronavigatsioon		0
10	Basque (eu) Nabigazio astronomiko		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 "Celestial navigation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Celestial navigation		868
2	German (de) Astronomische Navigation		152
3	Chinese (zh) 天文航海		140
4	Japanese (ja) 天測航法		110
5	French (fr) Navigation astronomique		107
6	Russian (ru) Астрономическая навигация		92
7	Italian (it) Navigazione astronomica		64
8	Persian (fa) ناوبری فلکی		62
9	Korean (ko) 천문항법		62
10	Catalan (ca) Navegació astronòmica		57

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ملاحة فلكية
bg	Bulgarian Астрономическа навигация
ca	Catalan Navegació astronòmica
cs	Czech Astronavigace
de	German Astronomische Navigation
el	Greek Αστρονομική ναυσιπλοΐα
en	English Celestial navigation
es	Spanish Navegación astronómica
et	Estonian Astronavigatsioon
eu	Basque Nabigazio astronomiko
fa	Persian ناوبری فلکی
fi	Finnish Astronominen navigointi
fr	French Navigation astronomique
he	Hebrew ניווט אסטרונומי
hr	Croatian Astronavigacija
hu	Hungarian Csillagászati navigáció
hy	Armenian Ծովագնացային աստղագիտություն
id	Indonesian Navigasi benda langit
it	Italian Navigazione astronomica
ja	Japanese 天測航法
kk	Kazakh Астрономиялық навигация
ko	Korean 천문항법
nl	Dutch Astronavigatie
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Astronomisk navigasjon
no	Norwegian Astronomisk navigasjon
pl	Polish Astronawigacja
pt	Portuguese Navegação astronômica
ru	Russian Астрономическая навигация
simple	Simple English Celestial navigation
sk	Slovak Astronavigácia
sr	Serbian Небеска навигација
sv	Swedish Astronomisk navigation
th	Thai การเดินเรือดาราศาสตร์
tr	Turkish Göksel navigasyon
uk	Ukrainian Астрономічна навігація
zh	Chinese 天文航海

Best Rank

English: #65242 12.2012

Global: #72204 01.2014

Best Rank

English: #1071 11.2002

Global: #3242 11.2002

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