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Lewis Boss was an American astronomer who lived from 1846 to 1912 and directed the Dudley Observatory in Albany, New York. He is best known for compiling the General Catalogue of 33,342 Stars, an astrometric reference based on positional observations and proper-motion data. The catalogue helped organize measurements of stellar positions for astronomical research. Boss's work is relevant to the history of observational astronomy and the development of large star catalogs.
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