Helen Lines
American astronomer
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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.[1] Lines was a member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. She and her husband, civil engineer Richard D. Lines,[2] built a small observatory in Mayer, Arizona,[3] and wrote about its construction for Sky & Telescope.[4] 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.[5] She was a co-author on two scientific papers published in the mid-1990s.[6][7]
Publications
- "A New Amateur Observatory in Central Arizona" (1968, with Richard D. Lines)[4]
- "UBVRI photometry of the recurrent nova T coronae borealis" (1988, with Richard D. Lines and Thomas G. McFaul)[8]
- "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)[9]
- "The Two Variables in The Triple System HR 6469=V819 Her: One Eclipsing, One Spotted" (1994, with 16 other authors)[6]
- "Starspots Found on the Ellipsoidal Variable V350 Lacertae = HR 8575" (1995, with 5 other authors)[7]
Personal life
Helen Chambliss Williams was born in Forrest City, Arkansas, the daughter of Russell Williams and Sadie Borden Williams. Her father was the chief of police in Forrest City.[10] She married Richard Damon Lines in 1936. They had a daughter, Chambliss. Richard Lines died in 1992,[11] and Helen Lines died in 2001, aged 82 years, in Searcy, Arkansas.
