Helen Lines

Helen Lines

Helen Lines is an American amateur astronomer. In her beginnings she was a deep-sky observer and astrophotographer. She was one of early members of the Phoenix Astronomical Society and a member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. She and her husband Richard D. Lines built a small observatory in Mayer, Arizona. 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.

References

* [http://www.saguaroastro.org/content/SACNEWS/sac1992/sac.9209.pdf Saguaro Astronomy Club: The Passing of Richard Lines]
* [http://www.astrosociety.org/membership/awards/pastamateur.html Amateur Achievement Award winners]
* [http://pasaz.org/history.html History of Phoenix Astronomical Society]

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