Huge Eruptive Prominence

Between 8-35 and 8-44am UT I imaged an enormous eruptive prominence that was about a quarter of the diameter of the Sun in size.
Within an hour it had largely dissipated.
I used a DMK21 camera fitted with a short nosepiece and the lens assembly from a Coronado Cemax x2 Barlow and a H-alpha PST solar scope:

Eruptive prominence

Here is the same image colourised to represent the wavelength of light being observed:

A simple compact Fujifilm F-450 compact camera in B/W mode was able to capture the prominence with an afocal shot through a 15mm eyepiece:

A virtual occultation disk has been placed over the Sun in the right hand image to facilitate viewing the prominence which is fainter than the disk of the Sun.

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