EJA827 NetJets
Textron Aviation Citation Longitude · N827QS · SFO → ?
· 1:17Quality 72nose/tail
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −62%). 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
- 54%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 14.5 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.55° / 1.23°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 3.17° / 9.85°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 38.7 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 58.2 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 7.7 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.25° / 0.74°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.79° / 1.78°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.27°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.41°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.84°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 4.25°
- Zoom steps
- 49
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- EJA827
- Registration
- N827QS
- Type
- Textron Aviation Citation Longitude
- Airline
- NetJets
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 200 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 1,900 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,560 ft/min
- Category
- A2
- ICAO hex
- ab4c4b
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 81.7°
- Elevation at start → end
- 1.8° → 13.6°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 117° ESE → 298° WNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 30° NNE
- Minimum slant range
- 624 m
- Heading at closest
- 298° WNW
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (10°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:17 (76.5 s)
- Lock
- 54%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13h — no zoom-focus direct while the lens is still zooming (wedge race)
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 38.0 MB · 76.0 s · offset -1.0 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