Telescope Terminology
Friday, July 29th, 2011a comet passed over for about 2 seconds?
hi there. for the first time in my life tonight i looked through a little telescope looking at the moon then to the left of it i was told is jupiter with its 4 moons (2 either side) but as i looked away opposite to the west i saw a shooting star which lsted for about 2 seconds for what i can only describe in length of travel was about 20 centimeters of travel in the sky from coming in then out of sight. this was about 10 minutes to 9pm united kingdom time.
i live in the northumberland area of britain just to give an estimated area of sight for others that may have seen it. it travelled from west to east.
sorry this is all the information i have as im not very knowledged in terminology about shooting stars/comets.
thanks for reading
It was a meteor, not a comet.
You can see several of these almost every night if you watch the sky. See this web site:
http://stardate.org/nightsky/meteors/
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