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jujune29th 
Sophie watched as Tayla browsed through the book she had just gotten out of her bag. "Double star? This sounds lovely!" she thought to herself, smiling and looking up at the sky again. She couldn't wait to see this double star! "Do you think it'll be easier for us to find this swan if we used Little Dipper as a starting point?" Maybe the chart showed something about the distance between these two constellations? Or a book? It sounded simpler looking for it that way, instead of just staring at the sky. "I hope we can find this double star!" She actually wanted to see this double star more than the swan constellation!
Going back to her telescope, Sophie looked through it. She wasn't exactly trying to find the double star, because she thought that would be really difficult, especially since she didn't know how to work with the telescope too well yet. Instead, she just moved it around slowly, observing all of the beautiful stars.
Suddenly, Sophie heard Tayla asking what she liked about stars. She smiled. "They are really pretty and shiny! It seems like they're always so happy and celebrating!" She replied, still looking through the telescope. Sophie loved happiness and loved everything that seemed happy all the time. "What about you?"
Sophie then started alternating the way she was looking at the stars. Like Tayla, she would sometimes glance at the sky without her telescope, and some other times she would go back to looking through it.
"I'm not sure if we can find Cygnus through the Little Dipper, but we can try," Tayla replied.
"The double star is the swan's head...If we find that, then it might be easier to make out the rest of the constellation."
Tayla studied the star chart again, thinking about what Sophie suggested. Ursa Minor was somewhere below Cygnus, and to its right.
"In this star chart...the tail of Cygnus is the star closest to Ursa Minor that we'll easily see. It's called Deneb and it's the brightest star in the swan constellation."
Turning back to her telescope, she continued.
"Hmmm...maybe it'll be easier to look for Deneb first, before Albireo, the double star."
Tayla really wanted to see the double star at the swan's head. She could tell Sophie did, too. But if it were easier to find the swan's tail, then she'd have to look for that first. It would help them find the double star anyway.
Tayla nodded when Sophie answered her question. She really liked Sophie's cheerful personality.
"I agree," she replied.
"What I like is how mysterious they are. And magical. Sometimes I think stars could even be the source of our magic. But of course, that's just a crazy thought..."