UAL900 United
LHR → SFO
· 1:36Quality 72low zoomside-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −69%). 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
- 89%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 7.0 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.39° / 0.15°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.80° / 0.35°
- 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
- 0.64°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.88°
- Zoom steps
- 0
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL900
- Registration
- —
- Type
- —
- Airline
- United
- From
- LHR · London
- To
- SFO · San Francisco
- Ground speed
- 252 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 10,450 ft
- Vertical rate
- —
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- a34d20
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 26.3°
- Elevation at start → end
- 21.2° → 15.9°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 336° NNW → 61° ENE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 12° NNE
- Minimum slant range
- 7.2 km
- Heading at closest
- 108° ESE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (84°)
- Turn
- straight (4°)
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:36 (95.8 s)
- Lock
- 89%
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
- 47.5 MB · 95.0 s · offset -0.8 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
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