SWA2859 Southwest Airlines
Boeing 737NG 7H4/W · N465WN · SFO → ?
· 0:44Quality 60wrap pinnedlow zoomside-onDead-zone wrap
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −16%). Download
Trace
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
- 45%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 10.9 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 1.02° / 0.34°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 4.45° / 0.69°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 10.8°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- —
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 0.0 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 0.0 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- —
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- —
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- —
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- —
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.89°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.41°
- Zoom steps
- 0
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- SWA2859
- Registration
- N465WN
- Type
- Boeing 737NG 7H4/W
- Airline
- Southwest Airlines
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 346 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 11,200 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,240 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a5ae2f
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 41.6°
- Elevation at start → end
- 41.2° → 23.8°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 278° W → 208° SSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 269° W
- Minimum slant range
- 5.2 km
- Heading at closest
- 183° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (86°)
- Turn
- straight (3°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
- Duration
- 0:44 (44.4 s)
- Lock
- 45%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13g — debanding (archive s2 + live shader)
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 22.0 MB · 44.0 s · offset -1.1 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