The 2005 January 20 CME first appeared at 06:54:05 UT at a height of 4.48 Rs in the C2 field of view. The LASCO image had already begun to be contaminated by the SEPs arriving at the SOHO spacecraft. The later two images in the C3 FOV do not show the CME leading edge well. The measured heights therefore may not correspond to the leading edge, but to some brighter innner parts, thus underestimating the speed. The speed given here therefore is to be taken as a lower limit. A detailed analysis of the event including the EIT data can be found in Gopalswamy et al. (2005), which estimates a sky-plane speed of 3242 km/s at 06:54 UT.