Reflecting telescope

Reflecting telescope - telescope design that collects and focuses light with a combination of mirrors. Article “Reflecting telescope” in English Wikipedia has 67.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 34 references and 18 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Reflecting telescope”, its content was written by 329 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1126 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 528 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4106 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5778 in October 2003
• Global: #2987 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #38045 in October 2010
• Global: #37206 in October 2009

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, 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	German (de) Spiegelteleskop		70.9892
2	English (en) Reflecting telescope		67.3217
3	Dutch (nl) Spiegeltelescoop		55.3718
4	Portuguese (pt) Telescópio refletor		52.7395
5	Chinese (zh) 反射望远镜		48.5131
6	Catalan (ca) Telescopi reflector		48.3883
7	Russian (ru) Рефлектор (телескоп)		46.9312
8	Polish (pl) Teleskop zwierciadlany		41.4525
9	Azerbaijani (az) Reflektor (teleskop)		39.7415
10	Spanish (es) Telescopio reflector		39.2511

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Reflecting telescope" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Reflecting telescope		2 537 335
2	Spanish (es) Telescopio reflector		734 743
3	Russian (ru) Рефлектор (телескоп)		658 575
4	German (de) Spiegelteleskop		557 072
5	Thai (th) กล้องโทรทรรศน์สะท้อนแสง		243 683
6	Italian (it) Telescopio riflettore		230 347
7	Portuguese (pt) Telescópio refletor		153 546
8	Chinese (zh) 反射望远镜		138 464
9	Polish (pl) Teleskop zwierciadlany		131 200
10	Dutch (nl) Spiegeltelescoop		129 982

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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 "Reflecting telescope" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Reflecting telescope		3 109
2	Russian (ru) Рефлектор (телескоп)		797
3	German (de) Spiegelteleskop		743
4	Thai (th) กล้องโทรทรรศน์สะท้อนแสง		508
5	Japanese (ja) 反射望遠鏡		347
6	Spanish (es) Telescopio reflector		314
7	Chinese (zh) 反射望远镜		288
8	Italian (it) Telescopio riflettore		257
9	Dutch (nl) Spiegeltelescoop		124
10	Polish (pl) Teleskop zwierciadlany		111

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Reflecting telescope		329
2	German (de) Spiegelteleskop		220
3	Russian (ru) Рефлектор (телескоп)		79
4	Dutch (nl) Spiegeltelescoop		59
5	Spanish (es) Telescopio reflector		52
6	Hebrew (he) טלסקופ מחזיר אור		43
7	Polish (pl) Teleskop zwierciadlany		37
8	Italian (it) Telescopio riflettore		29
9	Portuguese (pt) Telescópio refletor		27
10	Catalan (ca) Telescopi reflector		21

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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 "Reflecting telescope" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Spiegelteleskop		3
2	Arabic (ar) مقراب عاكس		1
3	Catalan (ca) Telescopi reflector		1
4	Basque (eu) Islatze-teleskopio		1
5	Galician (gl) Telescopio reflector		1
6	Russian (ru) Рефлектор (телескоп)		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Reflektor (teleskop)		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Рефлекторен телескоп		0
9	Danish (da) Spejlteleskop		0
10	Greek (el) Κατοπτρικό τηλεσκόπιο		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 "Reflecting telescope" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Spiegelteleskop		918
2	English (en) Reflecting telescope		528
3	Italian (it) Telescopio riflettore		382
4	Russian (ru) Рефлектор (телескоп)		300
5	Dutch (nl) Spiegeltelescoop		243
6	Japanese (ja) 反射望遠鏡		196
7	Turkish (tr) Yansıtmalı teleskop		187
8	Spanish (es) Telescopio reflector		155
9	Chinese (zh) 反射望远镜		148
10	Ukrainian (uk) Рефлектор (телескоп)		146

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مقراب عاكس
az	Azerbaijani Reflektor (teleskop)
bg	Bulgarian Рефлекторен телескоп
ca	Catalan Telescopi reflector
da	Danish Spejlteleskop
de	German Spiegelteleskop
el	Greek Κατοπτρικό τηλεσκόπιο
en	English Reflecting telescope
es	Spanish Telescopio reflector
eu	Basque Islatze-teleskopio
fa	Persian تلسکوپ بازتابی
gl	Galician Telescopio reflector
he	Hebrew טלסקופ מחזיר אור
hi	Hindi परावर्ती दूरदर्शी
hr	Croatian Reflektorski teleskop
hy	Armenian Ռեֆլեկտոր
id	Indonesian Teleskop pemantul
it	Italian Telescopio riflettore
ja	Japanese 反射望遠鏡
kk	Kazakh Рефлектор (телескоп)
ko	Korean 반사 망원경
lt	Lithuanian Reflektorius
nl	Dutch Spiegeltelescoop
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Reflektor i astronomi
no	Norwegian Reflektorteleskop
pl	Polish Teleskop zwierciadlany
pt	Portuguese Telescópio refletor
ru	Russian Рефлектор (телескоп)
sk	Slovak Reflektor (astronómia)
sr	Serbian Рефлектор (телескоп)
ta	Tamil தெறிப்புவகைத் தொலைநோக்கி
th	Thai กล้องโทรทรรศน์สะท้อนแสง
tr	Turkish Yansıtmalı teleskop
uk	Ukrainian Рефлектор (телескоп)
vi	Vietnamese Kính viễn vọng phản xạ
zh	Chinese 反射望远镜

Best Rank

English: #38045 10.2010

Global: #37206 10.2009

Best Rank

English: #5778 10.2003

Global: #2987 07.2003

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