Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel (1809-1862) was an astronomer who founded the Cincinnati Observatory and later became director of the Dudley Observatory. He published the first popular journal of astronomy (The Sidereal Messenger) in the United States and confirmed that the star Antares is a double star.
Discovered on 1-4-2005 in Goodricke-Pigott by Reddy, V.