Edward Emerson Barnard - Honors

Honors

Awards

  • Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1892)
  • Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1897)
  • Bruce Medal (1917)

Named after him

  • Barnard (lunar crater)
  • Barnard (crater on Mars)
  • Barnard Regio on Ganymede
  • Asteroid 819 Barnardiana
  • NGC 6822 Barnard's Galaxy
  • Barnard's Loop
  • Barnard's Star
  • Barnard Hall, a residence hall at Vanderbilt University
  • Barnard Astronomical Society, Chattanooga's astronomy club
  • Mount Barnard

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