* Fellow of the Royal Society (1869)
* Rumford Medal, Royal Society of London (1874)
* Janssen Medal, Paris Academy of Sciences (1889)
* Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (1897)
* President, British Association (1903 &ndash; 1904)
* The crater Lockyer on the Moon and the crater Lockyer on Mars are both named after him, as is Norman Lockyer Island in Nunavut, Canada.