Honours and Memorials
- Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, (1836);
- Fellow of the Royal Society, (1848);
- Bronze medal at the The Great Exhibition for his transit-reducer, (1851).
- The distributed.net UK team, originally Cambridge University and CIX based, is named "Prof. James Challis' Most Excellent UK Team" in his honour .
- Lunar crater Challis is named after him.
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