Observational astronomy

Observational astronomy - field of astronomy concerned with recording data about the observable universe. Article “Observational astronomy” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Observational astronomy”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 592 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2443 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3819 in July 2025
• Global: #19282 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #36618 in December 2025
• Global: #92818 in December 2009

There are 30 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) Beobachtende Astronomie		99.3724
2	English (en) Observational astronomy		54.3461
3	Hungarian (hu) Megfigyeléses csillagászat		49.092
4	Italian (it) Astronomia osservativa		44.3567
5	Russian (ru) Наблюдательная астрономия		40.9875
6	Ukrainian (uk) Спостережна астрономія		36.272
7	Arabic (ar) علم الفلك الرصدي		27.4905
8	Spanish (es) Astronomía observacional		24.1598
9	Turkish (tr) Gözlemsel astronomi		23.0118
10	Indonesian (id) Astronomi observasional		21.5929

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Observational astronomy" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Observational astronomy		712 064
2	German (de) Beobachtende Astronomie		149 846
3	Arabic (ar) علم الفلك الرصدي		107 708
4	Italian (it) Astronomia osservativa		101 549
5	Polish (pl) Astronomia obserwacyjna		101 304
6	Spanish (es) Astronomía observacional		100 100
7	Russian (ru) Наблюдательная астрономия		74 152
8	French (fr) Astronomie d'observation		54 849
9	Turkish (tr) Gözlemsel astronomi		39 065
10	Chinese (zh) 观测天文学		36 431

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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 "Observational astronomy" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Observational astronomy		1 315
2	Spanish (es) Astronomía observacional		153
3	Chinese (zh) 观测天文学		150
4	German (de) Beobachtende Astronomie		137
5	Italian (it) Astronomia osservativa		108
6	French (fr) Astronomie d'observation		102
7	Persian (fa) اخترشناسی رصدی		64
8	Russian (ru) Наблюдательная астрономия		58
9	Japanese (ja) 観測天文学		56
10	Turkish (tr) Gözlemsel astronomi		55

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

Language versions of the article "Observational 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) Observational astronomy		139
2	German (de) Beobachtende Astronomie		128
3	Italian (it) Astronomia osservativa		53
4	French (fr) Astronomie d'observation		50
5	Arabic (ar) علم الفلك الرصدي		28
6	Polish (pl) Astronomia obserwacyjna		24
7	Persian (fa) اخترشناسی رصدی		17
8	Turkish (tr) Gözlemsel astronomi		17
9	Czech (cs) Pozorování oblohy		16
10	Spanish (es) Astronomía observacional		15

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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 "Observational astronomy" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Astronomia observacional		1
2	Ukrainian (uk) Спостережна астрономія		1
3	Vietnamese (vi) Thiên văn học quan sát		1
4	Arabic (ar) علم الفلك الرصدي		0
5	Czech (cs) Pozorování oblohy		0
6	German (de) Beobachtende Astronomie		0
7	Greek (el) Παρατηρησιακή αστροφυσική		0
8	English (en) Observational astronomy		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Kosmoobservado		0
10	Spanish (es) Astronomía observacional		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 "Observational astronomy" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Observational astronomy		503
2	Arabic (ar) علم الفلك الرصدي		444
3	French (fr) Astronomie d'observation		304
4	Italian (it) Astronomia osservativa		155
5	German (de) Beobachtende Astronomie		112
6	Persian (fa) اخترشناسی رصدی		112
7	Chinese (zh) 观测天文学		112
8	Catalan (ca) Astronomia observacional		104
9	Portuguese (pt) Astronomia observacional		75
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thiên văn học quan sát		74

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic علم الفلك الرصدي
ca	Catalan Astronomia observacional
cs	Czech Pozorování oblohy
de	German Beobachtende Astronomie
el	Greek Παρατηρησιακή αστροφυσική
en	English Observational astronomy
eo	Esperanto Kosmoobservado
es	Spanish Astronomía observacional
et	Estonian Vaatlusastronoomia
fa	Persian اخترشناسی رصدی
fr	French Astronomie d'observation
hi	Hindi प्रेक्षणात्मक खगोलिकी
hu	Hungarian Megfigyeléses csillagászat
id	Indonesian Astronomi observasional
it	Italian Astronomia osservativa
ja	Japanese 観測天文学
ko	Korean 관측천문학
no	Norwegian Observasjonsastronomi
pl	Polish Astronomia obserwacyjna
pt	Portuguese Astronomia observacional
ru	Russian Наблюдательная астрономия
simple	Simple English Observational astronomy
sk	Slovak Pozorovateľská astronómia
sr	Serbian Посматрачка астрономија
sv	Swedish Observationell astronomi
th	Thai ดาราศาสตร์เชิงสังเกตการณ์
tr	Turkish Gözlemsel astronomi
uk	Ukrainian Спостережна астрономія
vi	Vietnamese Thiên văn học quan sát
zh	Chinese 观测天文学

Best Rank

Simple English: #36618 12.2025

Global: #92818 12.2009

Best Rank

Simple English: #3819 07.2025

Global: #19282 05.2003

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