Honors and Legacy
- Elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1846.
- Elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1855.
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1863.
- In 2006, the three astronomical institutes of the Bonn University were merged and renamed as the Argelander-Institut für Astronomie.
- The crater Argelander on the Moon and the asteroid 1551 Argelander are named for him.
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