I could be very wrong about this, but I always thought observation was a property of measurement? IE to get any info, we have to interact with the system, so w

I could be very wrong about this, but I always thought observation was a property of measurement? IE to get any info, we have to interact with the system, so we "observe it", by say colliding a photon or something. This action interrupts the existing system. Once again this could be not the right way of looking at it, but that's always how I've interpreted the observer to not be this magical thing.