Acknowledgement
The Astronomical League awarded Edward Halbach with the Astronomical League Award in 1972 and the Leslie C. Peltier Award in 1981 for his variable star and lunar occultation observations and contributions to artificial satellite programs. The American Association of Variable Star Observers honoured him with the Merit Award in 1988, for his record of more than 50,000 observations in the AAVSO International Database and for 54-year service in the society.
He also won the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for his variable star and occultation observations in 1997. In 2003 he was awarded the William Tyler Olcott Award of the AAVSO, acknowledging him, among others, as a promoter of variable star observing and a mentor of amateur astronomers. By that time he contributed to the society's database with over 98,000 observations.
The Milwaukee Astronomical Society named one of their two 12.5 inches (32 cm) telescopes "Halbach reflector" in his honour. On April 7, 2009 he celebrated his 100th birthday, a landmark that was noted on the NBC television program Today.
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