Kat Troche

🌙 Bring a little more Moon joy to your 2027! 🌙 Support our new crowdfunding campaign at the $50 level and receive a package of 10 beautiful 2027 Moon Calendar Posters featuring the Moon’s phases and eclipses throughout the year. Just want a digital download? Only $5 😊 (1/2)

this is an important investigation into how NASA cuts are directly affecting flagship space science missions www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...

Are you ready for the Nancy Grace Roman telescope launch this weekend? @kuiperkat.org, @cosmicrosie.bsky.social, & our Director of Ed Vivian are bound for the Space Coast, so stay tuned for photo & video! Til then, register for our FREE panel on NGR's life & legacy, live on Thursday 8/27 on Zoom 🚀🌌

A bite of the Sun today from Queens, NY! #PartialSolarEclipse

🙌🏻Conference sponsor appreciation post🙌🏻 The Astro Society thanks Digitalis Education Solutions, Inc. for being one of our amazing sponsors this year. Digitalis manufactures & sells digital planetarium systems for portable and fixed domes. (1/2)

What if Mars wasn't always the "Red Planet?" 🌊🔴 Billions of years ago, Mars may have looked more like Earth—a world with a vast ocean, flowing rivers, sandy coastlines, and perhaps the building blocks of life. Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi explores the latest scientific evidence suggesting that Mars...

In 5 days, join the NASA Night Sky Network + our staff for a FREE webinar on International Observe the Moon Night!🌖🌝 Tuesday, July 28, 6:00pm PT/9:00pm ET: experienced event hosts will discuss this global observing program, how you can get involved, & program resources available this year.

Beaming in on this Tuesday to let you know that if you are among the first 50 people to register for our virtual conference, Astronomy @ 250, you'll get a special NASA 250 The Rocket's Red Glare patch, as worn by the Artemis II crew! 🚀🚀 (1/2)

Not long now - our annual conference starts in just over 5 weeks! 💫 We're offering a free panel as we kick off yet another jam-packed virtual event, focusing on "The Life and Legacy of Nancy Grace Roman". NASA's first Chief Astronomer and the Mother of Hubble, Roman's namesake telescope...

Nancy Grace Roman personally had a long relationship with the Astro Society & we are beyond thrilled that her namesake telescope is launching next month! ✨🔭 This 1-min video provides the basics of the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope & its job once it reaches LaGrange Point 2 & beams data back to Earth.

Webinar incoming! Hear from the NASA Night Sky Network - a nationwide coalition of amateur astronomy clubs partnering with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to bring the wonders of space down to Earth for communities everywhere, including educators, through hands-on activities...

1 week left in our library sale! 📚📚 These are just a few of the titles still available. As a 137 year-old org, you tend to collect some amazing books! Head over to ASPLibraryProject dot org and see what's left before time runs out ⏰🚀💫

We're here at SpaceCon in very warm & sunny San Antonio! Stop by booth J119 for free stickers, tiny astronauts, & galaxy lollipops and enter our raffle of #startrek goodies!

New article out from Astro Society staff in the Astronomical League's Reflector magazine! Our Senior Astronomy Education Specialist, Theresa J. Summer, writes about NASA's International Observe the Moon Night, this year taking place on September 19, in their new June 2026 issue 🌔🔭🧪

“It's sort of like going to a concert,” Troche explains. “Everybody's there to see the band play—everyone's excited. It's the same vibe.” I was happy to speak with Amy Brecount White at #NationalGeographic about #stargazing this summer! www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...

Happy Pride from the Astro Society team! 🎉🌈 NASA created this image using their space photography images (all of which are public domain, so cool!) to create the colors of the modern LGBT+, intersectional pride flag. 💫 Space is for everyone and we celebrate our beautiful, diverse communities.

TODAY!! At 6p PT/9pm ET - join us on YouTube and hear about Artemis II lunar science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThVg...

New logo, new era! We are now The Astro Society ✨ Our publications and awards will remain with our legacy name, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. All new content, our upcoming AstroBeat video series and podcast, plus our expanded presence at events will be as The Astro Society. Welcome!

Throwback post: This week’s image is of the globular cluster Liller 1! Despite its proximity to the Milky Way’s galactic bulge, Gemini captured this stunning image using the GeMS adaptive optics system on Gemini South. Check out the 🧵! #Astronomy

Our annual Awards submissions deadline is extended through next Wednesday, April 15 - get those nominations in! 💫 Every year, we recognize individual achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, & public outreach. Past recipients include luminaries such as Edwin Hubble, Vera Rubin...

It seems fitting, as the Artemis II mission continues its journey, that April is Global Astronomy Month! 🔭 We're watching STEAM education in action, something we are committed to 365 days a year. We offer workshops, courses, & hands-on educational activities for every age and learning level...

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24 minutes til Artemis surpasses Apollo's record!!

Friends: if you were an astronaut about to orbit the Moon on #ArtemisII, what would you want your wake up song to be? I've gotta go with Tank! youtu.be/UFFa0QoHWvE?...

#ArtemisII has entered the lunar sphere of influence!! Less than 40k miles left. LET'S GOOOOO 🚀🌕🚀

Real talk: what are we all wearing for Moon-Day tomorrow?? I've got my pins and patch ready. #ArtemisII

Two years ago, I had the opportunity to meet Reid Wiseman before we participated in the NASA total solar eclipse broadcast. I hope he and the #ArtemisII crew get to experience another solar eclipse from the far side of the Moon this Monday!

The focus of NASA's #Artemis 2 mission is shifting from views of Earth to the main event - sending humans around the moon's far side for the first time in more than 50 years. And don't miss the Easter message from NASA astronaut Victor Glover: cosmiclog.com/2026/04/04/o... #Space

Here's an image I just took of the Artemis II mission showing the Orion spacecraft and the upper booster module (not sure which is which) taken when they were around 69,000 km from Earth aloing with an image of Earth from the spacecraft taken at the same time. Taken with my Unistellar telescope. 🔭 🚀

Want to follow the crew of Integrity during Artemis II? Visit NASA.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/ and follow the real-time flight! You can also visit NASA Eyes on the Solar System for a simulation of this, and all past nasa missions 🚀🌕

I'm overwhelmed with joy. Go #NASA. Go #Artemis II 🚀🌕

We are the oldest astronomical society in the United States, but we're not quite as old as the first photo ever taken of the moon. 🌔 This public-domain image is a daguerreotype by John W. Draper taken in 1840 from his rooftop observatory at New York University, and predates our founding by 49 years.

Artemis II is on track for an April 1 launch, so mark your calendar & join us at 2:30pm PT/5:30pm ET for a LIVE viewing party on our YouTube channel (at astrosocietypac). RSVP to our event on Facebook or add a reminder to your calendar app. 📅 👩🏻‍🚀🧑🏻‍🚀 Amy Imhoff, ASP's Director of Digital Brand...

Welcome, spring! 🌸 On Friday March 20, our team celebrated the Spring Equinox by observing sunset over the San Francisco Bay with a solar telescope, the Mayan Day Count Observer, Exploratorium, and local Mayan Yucatec Jarana Dance Group. Vivian White, our Director of Free Choice Learning...