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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