[2] Jay Pasachoff on solar eclipses: "Each time is like going to the seventh game of the World Series with the score tied in the ninth inning.
[4] Pasachoff observed with a wide variety of ground-based telescopes and spacecraft, and reported on those activities in writing his texts.
[10] Also with his wife, Naomi, Pasachoff wrote biographies of Henry Norris Russell,[11] John Pond,[12] Hypatia,[13] and Edward Williams Morley[14] for the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers.
[7] Pasachoff received the 2012 Prix-Jules–Janssen from the Société astronomique de France,[16]"for your outstanding research, teaching and popularisation of Astronomy, in the spirit with which Camille Flammarion created the award back in 1897.
He has also used radio astronomy made observations of the interstellar medium with scientists from Hofstra University and elsewhere, concentrating on deuterium.
He was also Director of the Hopkins Observatory and (in rotation, currently beginning in the fall semester of 2019) Chair of the Astronomy Department at Williams.
He was on the Organizing Committee for Commission C.C3 on the History of Astronomy of the International Astronomical Union (2015-2018) and on the Johannes Kepler Working Group.
A catalogue of the Jay and Naomi Pasachoff rare-book collection—including works by Copernicus, Tycho, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Fraunhofer, and Einstein—on deposit in the Chapin Library of Williams College (W. Hammond, 2014).