Richard D. Lines, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRichard D. Lines
American amateur astronomer
Date of Birth: 21-Apr-1916
Date of Death: 01-Jun-1992
Profession: astronomer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Richard D. Lines
- Richard D.
- Lines (April 21, 1916 – June 29, 1992) was an American amateur astronomer.
- He started as a deep-sky observer and photographer, but later specialized in photometry of variable stars.
- He was a member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers and International Amateur-Professional Photoelectric Photometry (I.A.P.P.P.).
- Together with his wife Helen Chambliss Lines, also a keen astronomer, he built a small observatory in Mayer, Arizona.
- In 1962 he co-discovered the comet Seki-Lines.
- In 1992 he and his wife won the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for their work in the field of photoelectric photometry of variable stars.
- Short time after he was awarded, Richard Lines died.
- In 1994 the I.A.P.P.P.
- announced that its annual Special Award in Astronomy would carry his name as the Richard D.
- Lines Special Award in Astronomy.
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