Right ascension

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Right ascension

Quality:

Right ascension - astronomical equivalent of longitude. Article “Right ascension” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Right ascension”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1113 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 204 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 276868 times in all languages (372nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #1234 in August 2019
  • Global: #3306 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #2874 in August 2010
  • Global: #45545 in January 2008

There are 51 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Croatian (hr)
Rektascenzija
38.5855
2Catalan (ca)
Ascensió recta
33.3864
3English (en)
Right ascension
33.065
4Malay (ms)
Jarak hamal
29.4037
5Russian (ru)
Прямое восхождение
29.0611
6Spanish (es)
Ascensión recta
27.627
7Arabic (ar)
مطلع مستقيم
26.2798
8Serbian (sr)
Rektascenzija
24.9011
9Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Rektascenzija
22.2301
10Turkish (tr)
Sağ açıklık
21.4453
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Right ascension" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Right ascension
2 298 845
2German (de)
Rektaszension
468 840
3Russian (ru)
Прямое восхождение
275 692
4Spanish (es)
Ascensión recta
256 768
5Polish (pl)
Rektascensja
225 471
6French (fr)
Ascension droite
216 004
7Italian (it)
Ascensione retta
182 955
8Japanese (ja)
赤経
162 900
9Chinese (zh)
赤经
150 228
10Portuguese (pt)
Ascensão reta
92 773
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Right ascension" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Right ascension
6 596
2German (de)
Rektaszension
916
3Russian (ru)
Прямое восхождение
821
4Spanish (es)
Ascensión recta
748
5French (fr)
Ascension droite
670
6Chinese (zh)
赤经
480
7Japanese (ja)
赤経
463
8Italian (it)
Ascensione retta
409
9Polish (pl)
Rektascensja
382
10Korean (ko)
적경
273
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Right ascension" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Right ascension
146
2French (fr)
Ascension droite
84
3German (de)
Rektaszension
81
4Italian (it)
Ascensione retta
57
5Dutch (nl)
Rechte klimming
56
6Russian (ru)
Прямое восхождение
47
7Spanish (es)
Ascensión recta
42
8Danish (da)
Rektascension
34
9Vietnamese (vi)
Xích kinh
34
10Finnish (fi)
Rektaskensio
32
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Right ascension" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Spanish (es)
Ascensión recta
3
2Korean (ko)
적경
2
3Arabic (ar)
مطلع مستقيم
0
4Azerbaijani (az)
Birbaşa çıxma
0
5Belarusian (be)
Прамое ўзыходжанне
0
6Bulgarian (bg)
Ректасцензия
0
7Catalan (ca)
Ascensió recta
0
8Czech (cs)
Rektascenze
0
9Danish (da)
Rektascension
0
10German (de)
Rektaszension
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Right ascension" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Ukrainian (uk)
Пряме піднесення
22 709
2Portuguese (pt)
Ascensão reta
16 246
3German (de)
Rektaszension
15 772
4Belarusian (be)
Прамое ўзыходжанне
15 461
5Polish (pl)
Rektascensja
15 312
6Russian (ru)
Прямое восхождение
14 699
7Chinese (zh)
赤经
13 883
8Kazakh (kk)
Тура көтерілу
13 535
9Serbian (sr)
Rektascenzija
13 162
10French (fr)
Ascension droite
13 033
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مطلع مستقيم
azAzerbaijani
Birbaşa çıxma
beBelarusian
Прамое ўзыходжанне
bgBulgarian
Ректасцензия
caCatalan
Ascensió recta
csCzech
Rektascenze
daDanish
Rektascension
deGerman
Rektaszension
elGreek
Ορθή αναφορά
enEnglish
Right ascension
eoEsperanto
Rektascensio
esSpanish
Ascensión recta
etEstonian
Otsetõus
euBasque
Igoera zuzen
faPersian
بعد (اخترشناسی)
fiFinnish
Rektaskensio
frFrench
Ascension droite
glGalician
Ascensión recta
heHebrew
עלייה ישרה
hiHindi
दायाँ आरोहण
hrCroatian
Rektascenzija
huHungarian
Rektaszcenzió
hyArmenian
Ուղիղ ծագում
idIndonesian
Asensio rekta
itItalian
Ascensione retta
jaJapanese
赤経
kaGeorgian
პირდაპირი აღვლენა
kkKazakh
Тура көтерілу
koKorean
적경
laLatin
Ascensio recta
ltLithuanian
Rektascensija
msMalay
Jarak hamal
nlDutch
Rechte klimming
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Rektasensjon
noNorwegian
Rektascensjon
plPolish
Rektascensja
ptPortuguese
Ascensão reta
roRomanian
Ascensie dreaptă
ruRussian
Прямое восхождение
shSerbo-Croatian
Rektascenzija
simpleSimple English
Right ascension
skSlovak
Rektascenzia
slSlovenian
Rektascenzija
srSerbian
Rektascenzija
svSwedish
Rektascension
thThai
ไรต์แอสเซนชัน
trTurkish
Sağ açıklık
ukUkrainian
Пряме піднесення
urUrdu
مطلع مستقیم
viVietnamese
Xích kinh
zhChinese
赤经

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2874
08.2010
Global:
#45545
01.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1234
08.2019
Global:
#3306
02.2003

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Right ascension from Wikipedia articles about Declination, Equatorial coordinate system, TON 618, Sirius and Boötes void. Whereas reading the article about Right ascension people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Declination, Equatorial coordinate system, First point of Aries, Astronomical coordinate system and Celestial equator.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 赤経
zh: 赤经
ko: 적경

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