"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Alan Erskine wrote:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._11_launch.jpg -
take a look at the tip of the LES - it looks like it's glowing, but A-11
was travelling at just under Mach 1 at the time (note the condensation
cloud around the interstage).

I seem to recall seeing images of the LES with a yellow nose; could that
be it?

Some sort of static electrical discharge? It does look very odd.

Pat

Yeah.... I've seen the image before, but never noticed it. I remember
seeing an image of an Apollo on the pad (very BIG image - took ages to
download on a dial-up), with a yellow tip on the LES. A couple of people
have suggested sunlight, but I think it's too evenly distributed for that -
if you have a close look, the yellow goes all the way around - way out of
sunlight range.