I noticed a bright spot on the SE Limb when I set up to shoot the full disk so decided to focus on that area. Lucky I did as this will be the last animation I can do for about a month as I take a trip and won't have access to my solar setup. Nice way to take a pause. I will post two animations. The main one that is 2 hours in length covers the entire eruption until the plasma leaves the FOV. I then went to a wide view just to see how far out I could track the plasma. Looks to be over 600,000 KM! And that bit of animation is only 30 minutes in time. Some passing clouds causes some jumps in the frames in the large animation.
Here is the end of what I could see passing out of the wide field of view with the measurement, the furthest circle out is 200,000KM so this plasma was nearly 500,000KM off the surface and still just visible!
And the graph from Space Weather Live showing the two flares
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