Messier object

Messier object - astronomical objects catalogued by Charles Messier. This book is the 745^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 751^st most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “Messier object” in English Wikipedia has 85.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 130 references and 7 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Messier object” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Messier object”, its content was written by 289 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1595 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Messier object is on the 751^st place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 745^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 2536 times in English Wikipedia and cited 19989 times in all languages (8303^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1303 in November 2001
• Global: #153 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #14338 in November 2023
• Global: #23751 in November 2023

There are 48 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	Czech (cs) Messierův katalog		89.0142
2	Indonesian (id) Objek Messier		86.0991
3	English (en) Messier object		85.4737
4	Portuguese (pt) Catálogo Messier		84.2142
5	Vietnamese (vi) Thiên thể Messier		71.972
6	Azerbaijani (az) Messye cisimləri		61.6574
7	Ukrainian (uk) Каталог Мессьє		61.0634
8	Tamil (ta) மெசியே பொருள்		59.0515
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Messierkatalogen		57.6089
10	Russian (ru) Каталог Мессье		51.886

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Messier object" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Messier object		3 812 128
2	German (de) Messier-Katalog		489 971
3	Japanese (ja) メシエカタログ		469 060
4	Spanish (es) Catálogo Messier		293 651
5	Russian (ru) Каталог Мессье		250 883
6	French (fr) Catalogue de Messier		246 772
7	Italian (it) Catalogo di Messier		235 586
8	Polish (pl) Katalog Messiera		175 211
9	Chinese (zh) 梅西耶天體		143 936
10	Portuguese (pt) Catálogo Messier		105 828

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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 "Messier object" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Messier object		13 790
2	German (de) Messier-Katalog		3 348
3	Japanese (ja) メシエカタログ		1 420
4	French (fr) Catalogue de Messier		994
5	Russian (ru) Каталог Мессье		746
6	Spanish (es) Catálogo Messier		721
7	Chinese (zh) 梅西耶天體		631
8	Italian (it) Catalogo di Messier		561
9	Polish (pl) Katalog Messiera		368
10	Czech (cs) Messierův katalog		280

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Messier object		289
2	German (de) Messier-Katalog		150
3	French (fr) Catalogue de Messier		93
4	Italian (it) Catalogo di Messier		80
5	Russian (ru) Каталог Мессье		66
6	Japanese (ja) メシエカタログ		58
7	Hungarian (hu) Messier-katalógus		52
8	Spanish (es) Catálogo Messier		50
9	Dutch (nl) Messierobject		49
10	Finnish (fi) Messierin luettelo		48

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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 "Messier object" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Messier object		5
2	Czech (cs) Messierův katalog		2
3	Arabic (ar) فهرس مسييه		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Messye cisimləri		0
5	Belarusian (be) Каталог Месье		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Каталог на Месие		0
7	Catalan (ca) Catàleg Messier		0
8	Danish (da) Messiers katalog		0
9	German (de) Messier-Katalog		0
10	Greek (el) Αντικείμενο Μεσιέ		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 "Messier object" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Esperanto (eo) Messier-katalogo		7 165
2	English (en) Messier object		2 536
3	French (fr) Catalogue de Messier		1 122
4	Chinese (zh) 梅西耶天體		952
5	Japanese (ja) メシエカタログ		527
6	Arabic (ar) فهرس مسييه		489
7	Turkish (tr) Messier cisimleri		429
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thiên thể Messier		413
9	Swedish (sv) Messiers katalog		378
10	Romanian (ro) Catalogul Messier		347

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فهرس مسييه
az	Azerbaijani Messye cisimləri
be	Belarusian Каталог Месье
bg	Bulgarian Каталог на Месие
ca	Catalan Catàleg Messier
cs	Czech Messierův katalog
da	Danish Messiers katalog
de	German Messier-Katalog
el	Greek Αντικείμενο Μεσιέ
en	English Messier object
eo	Esperanto Messier-katalogo
es	Spanish Catálogo Messier
et	Estonian Messier' kataloog
eu	Basque Messier sistema
fa	Persian اجرام مسیه
fi	Finnish Messierin luettelo
fr	French Catalogue de Messier
he	Hebrew קטלוג מסיה
hi	Hindi मॅसिये वस्तुएँ
hr	Croatian Messierov katalog
hu	Hungarian Messier-katalógus
id	Indonesian Objek Messier
it	Italian Catalogo di Messier
ja	Japanese メシエカタログ
ko	Korean 메시에 천체
la	Latin Catalogue des nébuleuses et des amas d'étoiles
lt	Lithuanian Mesjė objektas
ms	Malay Objek Messier
nl	Dutch Messierobject
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Messierkatalogen
no	Norwegian Messierkatalogen
pl	Polish Katalog Messiera
pt	Portuguese Catálogo Messier
ro	Romanian Catalogul Messier
ru	Russian Каталог Мессье
sh	Serbo-Croatian Messierov katalog
simple	Simple English Messier catalogue
sk	Slovak Messierov katalóg
sl	Slovenian Messierov katalog
sr	Serbian Mesjeov katalog
sv	Swedish Messiers katalog
ta	Tamil மெசியே பொருள்
th	Thai วัตถุท้องฟ้าของเมซีเย
tr	Turkish Messier cisimleri
uk	Ukrainian Каталог Мессьє
vi	Vietnamese Thiên thể Messier
zh	Chinese 梅西耶天體
zhminnan	Min Nan Messier thian-thé

Best Rank

English: #14338 11.2023

Global: #23751 11.2023

Best Rank

English: #1303 11.2001

Global: #153 11.2001

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