Helen Lines

Helen Chambliss Williams Lines (July 13, 1918 – January 29, 2001) was an American amateur astronomer.

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.