Honors
Awards and honors
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1867.
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1886 and 1901)
- Henry Draper Medal from the National Academy of Sciences (1888)
- Bruce Medal (1908)
Named after him
- The crater Pickering on the Moon
- The crater Pickering Mars.
- Asteroid 784 Pickeringia
(all jointly named after him and his brother William Henry Pickering)
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