Helen Lines Explained

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)
• "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)
• "Starspots Found on the Ellipsoidal Variable V350 Lacertae = HR 8575" (1995, with 5 other authors)

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.

External links

• Saguaro Astronomy Club: The Passing of Richard Lines
• Amateur Achievement Award winners
• History of Phoenix Astronomical Society

Notes and References

1. News: Murray . Clyde . 1969-01-05 . State amateur stargazers' numbers jump . 13 . . 2022-09-12 . Newspapers.com.
2. News: 1962-04-07 . Comet Spied by Engineer . 25 . Arizona Republic . 2022-09-12 . Newspapers.com.
3. Book: The Study of Variable Stars Using Small Telescopes . 1986 . . . 978-0-521-33300-9 . 241 . en.
4. Lines . Richard D. . Lines . Helen C. . September 1968 . "A New Amateur Observatory in Central Arizona" . Sky & Telescope . 36 . 3 . 183–186.
5. Web site: Past recipients. Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 12 September 2022 .
6. van Hamme, W.V.; Hall, D.S.; Hargrove, A.W.; Henry, G.W.; Wasson, R.; Barkslade, W.S.; Chang, S.; Fried, R.E.; Green, C.L.; Lines, H.C.; Lines, R.D.; Nielsen, P.; Powell, H.D.; Reisenweber, R.C.; Rogers, C.W.; Shervais, S.; Tatum, R. "The Two Variables in The Triple System HR 6469=V819 Her: One Eclipsing, One Spotted" Astronomical Journal 107(1994):, p.1521.
7. Crews, L.J.; Hall, D.S.; Henry, G.W.; Lines, R.D.; Lines, H.C.; Fried, R.E. "Starspots Found on the Ellipsoidal Variable V350 Lacertae = HR 8575" Astronomical Journal 109(1995):, p.1346.
8. Lines, Helen C., Richard D. Lines, and Thomas G. McFaul. "UBVRI photometry of the recurrent nova T coronae borealis." The Astronomical Journal 95 (1988): 1505-1509.
9. Hall . Douglas S. . Gessner . Susan E. . Lines . Helen C. . Lines . Richard D. . December 1990 . Evolution of starspots in the long-period RS CVN binary V1817 Cygni = HR 7428 . The Astronomical Journal . 100 . 2017 . 10.1086/115656. 1990AJ....100.2017H .
10. News: 1932-01-01 . Body of Missing Merchant Found . 1 . Hope Star . 2022-09-12 . Newspapers.com.
11. News: 1992-07-01 . Obituary for Richard Damon Lines (Aged 76) . 28 . Arizona Republic . 2022-09-12 . Newspapers.com.