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jujune29th 
Appreciate the stars? Sophie could do that easily! She smiled while looking up again. It was a good thing she was just eleven years old, her neck wouldn't be sore from looking up for so long!
Sophie watched Tayla do whatever she wanted to her telescope. "Oh, really? That's nice!" So she would be able to keep on checking on the very first constellation she had ever spotted whenever she wanted! Cool! When Tayla told her to look through the telescope again, Sophie did it eagerly. "Is that it?" she asked excitedly, still looking at Little Dipper through the telescope. "Lovely! It is so, so beautiful and ginormous!"
She heard Tayla talking about the swan constellation, but Sophie still stared at Little Dipper for a few more seconds. Well, the Gryffindor girl said she would be able to see it any time of the year, so she finally looked at what Tayla was showing her now. "A swan! That sounds even more difficult to find!" she said, raising both of her eyebrows. "But sure, let's look for it!" And saying that, Sophie looked up at the sky without using the telescope.
"I know! The telescope makes everything so gigantic that it totally messes me up." she giggled. Maybe she would get used to it if she spent more time stargazing.
"I know what you mean," Tayla grinned. The telescope confused her, too, sometimes. She continued to gaze at the stars with her naked eyes. Tayla looked back at the star chart a few times.
"I hope we'll be able to spot it..." she mumbled to Sophie.
A few minutes later, Tayla took out a book from her bag and browsed quickly through it.
"I should have checked this earlier. It might help..."
Finding what she was looking for, she closed the book and again looked up at the sky.
"It says in my book that a double star called Albireo - not sure if I pronounced it right - is at the swan's head."
Tayla took her telescope and looked through it.
"It appears to be a single star when viewed through the naked eye. But under the telescope, we'll see it as a double star - one yellow and one blue."
Tayla tried looking for Albireo, alternating between staring at the sky and using the telescope. With all the stars in the sky, she didn't know how she would find it, but she tried anyway.
"What do you like about stars, Sophie?" Tayla asked suddenly, still looking for the double star.