Throughout her career she authored and co-authored over 100 papers and attended the tenth general assembly of the International Astronomical Union on the Joint Commission on Spectroscopy in Moscow in 1958.[1] Sitterly retired from her position at the NBS when she turned 70, in 1968, but continued her research at the Naval Research Laboratory.[10] Sitterly was honored by the Journal of the Optical Society of America by a commemorative issue in 1988.[11]