Messier object

Messier object - astronomical objects catalogued by Charles Messier. This book is the 750^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 740^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “Messier object” in English Wikipedia has 87.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 130 references and 7 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Messier object”, its content was written by 291 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1582 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Messier object is on the 740^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 750^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 2845 times in English Wikipedia and cited 20387 times in all languages (8464^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1307 in November 2001
• Global: #152 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #14364 in November 2023
• Global: #23740 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, 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	English (en) Messier object		87.4047
2	Czech (cs) Messierův katalog		87.1333
3	Indonesian (id) Objek Messier		86.1425
4	Portuguese (pt) Catálogo Messier		83.6826
5	Vietnamese (vi) Thiên thể Messier		71.7493
6	Azerbaijani (az) Messye cisimləri		65.3544
7	Ukrainian (uk) Каталог Мессьє		59.0876
8	Tamil (ta) மெசியே பொருள்		58.8795
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Messierkatalogen		57.6163
10	Russian (ru) Каталог Мессье		52.0103

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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		3 997 977
2	German (de) Messier-Katalog		509 072
3	Japanese (ja) メシエカタログ		489 144
4	Spanish (es) Catálogo Messier		302 718
5	Russian (ru) Каталог Мессье		277 554
6	French (fr) Catalogue de Messier		257 328
7	Italian (it) Catalogo di Messier		241 927
8	Polish (pl) Katalog Messiera		180 256
9	Chinese (zh) 梅西耶天體		163 822
10	Portuguese (pt) Catálogo Messier		108 654

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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 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Messier object		12 059
2	Japanese (ja) メシエカタログ		1 303
3	German (de) Messier-Katalog		1 094
4	French (fr) Catalogue de Messier		625
5	Spanish (es) Catálogo Messier		608
6	Chinese (zh) 梅西耶天體		536
7	Russian (ru) Каталог Мессье		469
8	Italian (it) Catalogo di Messier		413
9	Polish (pl) Katalog Messiera		287
10	Portuguese (pt) Catálogo Messier		180

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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		291
2	German (de) Messier-Katalog		151
3	French (fr) Catalogue de Messier		96
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		53
8	Spanish (es) Catálogo Messier		50
9	Dutch (nl) Messierobject		50
10	Finnish (fi) Messierin luettelo		49

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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 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Basque (eu) Messier sistema		2
2	Indonesian (id) Objek Messier		2
3	Arabic (ar) فهرس مسييه		1
4	Czech (cs) Messierův katalog		1
5	Romanian (ro) Catalogul Messier		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Messye cisimləri		0
7	Belarusian (be) Каталог Месье		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Каталог на Месие		0
9	Catalan (ca) Catàleg Messier		0
10	Danish (da) Messiers katalog		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		7 161
2	English (en) Messier object		2 845
3	French (fr) Catalogue de Messier		1 128
4	Chinese (zh) 梅西耶天體		956
5	Japanese (ja) メシエカタログ		594
6	Arabic (ar) فهرس مسييه		491
7	Turkish (tr) Messier cisimleri		432
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thiên thể Messier		413
9	Swedish (sv) Messiers katalog		376
10	Romanian (ro) Catalogul Messier		346

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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: #14364 11.2023

Global: #23740 11.2023

Best Rank

English: #1307 11.2001

Global: #152 11.2001

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