March 15: an extra day in Rovaniemi

It was time to say goodbye to most people of our group.
Alain and I stayed one extra day, so we walked through the city of Rovaniemi and visited Arktikum for the second time, much slower and extensive this time. We got some good ideas for the exhibition space at public observatory Urania! ;-) We visited also the Pilke Science Centre, an exhibition about the northern forests, but it was not really worth the visit...

I'm moving the auroras in the Pilke Science Centre (courtesy of Alain).

The Solar Influence Data Analysis Centre in Brussels announced that a C2.0 CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) would reach the Earth on March 15 in the evening. Unfortunately the CME was faster than initially predicted, so it impacted the Earth's magnetosphere already in the morning. Apart from that it was also  cloudy. So we decided to wait until 11 PM, but conditions were still bad. Alain called me later that night to tell me that the sky cleared out, but I stayed in my bed. Bad decision!