A retired professor of Russian and Slavonic studies at the University of Sheffield, Bill Leatherbarrow is also a lifelong amateur astronomer and observer of the moon. A past president of the British Astronomical Association, he is currently director of the association’s Lunar Section. He is the author and editor of over a dozen books, and in 2016 minor planet 95852 was named “Leatherbarrow” after him by the International Astronomical Union.