Helen Lines

Helen Chambliss Williams Lines (July 13, 1918 – January 29, 2001) was an American amateur astronomer. In her beginnings she was a deep-sky observer and astrophotographer.

Astronomy In 1969, Lines was one of early members of the Phoenix Astronomical Society. Lines was a member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. She and her husband, civil engineer Richard D. Lines, built a small observatory in Mayer, Arizona, and wrote about its construction for Sky & Telescope. In 1992 they won the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for their work in the field of photoelectric photometry of variable stars. She was a co-author on two scientific papers published in the mid-1990s.

Publications

"A New Amateur Observatory in Central Arizona" (1968, with Richard D. Lines) "Evolution of starspots in the long-period RS CVN binary V1817 Cygni = HR 7428" (1990, with Richard D. Lines, Douglas S. Hall, and Susan E. Gessner) "The Two Variables in The Triple System HR 6469=V819 Her: One Eclipsing, One Spotted" (1994, with 16 other authors) She married Richard Damon Lines in 1936. They had a daughter, Chambliss. Richard Lines died in 1992, and Helen Lines died in 2001, aged 82 years, in Searcy, Arkansas.