UAL507 United
Boeing 777 224ER · N78017 · SFO → ?
· 1:09Quality 84side-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −72%). Download
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Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.
—FOV —az —el —pose —
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Events
Tracking metrics
How well the camera kept the aircraft centred. Tap a metric for what it means and what good looks like.
- Lockshare of the pass
- 67%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 17.9 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.87° / 0.65°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 5.72° / 5.42°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 5.0°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 38.2 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 45.7 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 3.7 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.15° / 0.18°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.48° / 0.62°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.63°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.88°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.89°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 4.78°
- Zoom steps
- 48
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL507
- Registration
- N78017
- Type
- Boeing 777 224ER
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 178 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 1,275 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,624 ft/min
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- aa9321
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 76.6°
- Elevation at start → end
- 2.2° → 13.7°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 116° ESE → 298° WNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 26° NNE
- Minimum slant range
- 438 m
- Heading at closest
- 298° WNW
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (88°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:09 (68.7 s)
- Lock
- 67%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-12i — focus jumps only to trusted tele points; rate-steered setpoint; bias learned only when still
- Commit
- 68739f5+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 33.9 MB · 68.0 s · offset -0.9 s
- pursuit
- velocity
- maxLeadSec
- 3
- panLatencySec
- 0.6
- tiltLatencySec
- 0.4
- rippleDeg
- 0.5
- rippleTeleDeg
- 0.25
- rateFloorDegPerDps
- 2.5
- rateFloorMaxDeg
- 12
- lockedSigmaDeg
- 0.35
- correctionSlewDps
- 2.5
- kp
- 1
- ki
- 0.6
This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License