Honors include naming Moon crater Bayer (51.6S, 35.0W, 47 km diameter) in 1935.

Links

• Johann Bayer Biography (Galileo Project)

References:

• Kenneth Glyn Jones, 1968. The Search for the Nebulae -- II. Journal of the British Astronomical Association, Vol. 78, No. 5 (1968), p. 360-368, here p. 361-362.