Hi,
Interesting, I wasn't awary of any observatory in Finland. I googled on the ones you mentioned and found a lot of interesting to read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsin...ty_Observatory
They have a double refractor with two 0.33 meter
https://www.lapland.fi/business/comp...l-observatory/
http://www.geophysica.fi/pdf/geophys...003_kataja.pdf
I and my girlfriend has talked about go north to see one (or many) Aurora. We live in Sweden but found at that time it was best to go to Iceland. Maybe different today.
https://guidetoiceland.is/the-northe...hts-in-iceland
Thanks for the information, I added the observatories on my list:
http://www.astrofriend.eu/links/link...rotourism.html
A lot of things to do, no time for work !
/Lars