N800WC
Bombardier Challenger 604 · N800WC · SJC → STL
· 0:26Quality 66nose/tailOverhead
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −78%). 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
- 49%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 9.4 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.21° / 0.22°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 1.02° / 1.02°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 5.3 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 7.4 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 3.5 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.00° / 0.00°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.00° / 0.00°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.67°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.34°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.70°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.30°
- Zoom steps
- 23
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- N800WC
- Registration
- N800WC
- Type
- Bombardier Challenger 604
- Airline
- —
- From
- SJC · San Jose
- To
- STL · St Louis
- Ground speed
- 204 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 1,200 ft
- Vertical rate
- —
- Category
- A2
- ICAO hex
- aae3d4
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 87.5°
- Elevation at start → end
- 71.0° → 12.4°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 110° ESE → 297° WNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 43° NE
- Minimum slant range
- 377 m
- Heading at closest
- 297° WNW
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (6°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- Yes — camera flipped over the top
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:26 (25.7 s)
- Lock
- 49%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13a — zoom ladder waits for the lens to settle before demoting
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 13.0 MB · 26.0 s · offset -1.3 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