N173NY
Gulfstream Aerospace G550 · N173NY
· 1:00nose/tailturned left 50°
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −56%). 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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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
- 75%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 5.1 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.22° / 0.39°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 4.87° / 2.42°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 4.2 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 34.5 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 15.3 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.19° / 0.16°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.79° / 0.68°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 3.3
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.19°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.51°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.24°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.71°
- Zoom steps
- 39
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- N173NY
- Registration
- N173NY
- Type
- Gulfstream Aerospace G550
- Airline
- —
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 366 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 13,925 ft
- Vertical rate
- +3,904 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a12595
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 89.1°
- Elevation at start → end
- 53.9° → 31.7°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 9° N → 160° SSE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 77° ENE
- Minimum slant range
- 4.3 km
- Heading at closest
- 182° S
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (1°)
- Turn
- turned left 50°
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:00 (59.8 s)
- Lock
- 75%
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
- 30.0 MB · 60.0 s · offset -1.2 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