Satellite watchers call it the ISS marathon, and it is just beginning. For a few weeks each summer, the height of the Earth's shadow overhead at night at the latitude of London drops below the orbital height, nearly 350km, of the International Space Station.
This does not guarantee that the ISS is visible during every one of those nights; after all it may be overflying Britain only during daylight as it was last week. It does, though, mean that we can see the ISS at some time during every night for almost the next four weeks. It also means that for a few days, between the 12th and 16th, the ISS and its crew will be bathed in sunlight all the way around their 91.4 minutes orbit of the Earth. As usual, our BST predictions of the ISS's visibility for London and Manchester use asterisks to flag the direction in which it emerges from eclipse.