UAL2409 United
Boeing 737NG 924ER/W · N37413
· 1:09Quality 86side-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −82%). 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
- 73%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 8.3 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.33° / 0.15°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.71° / 0.75°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 9.4 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 11.4 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 22.5 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.37° / 0.16°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.26° / 0.56°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.43°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.85°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.83°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.76°
- Zoom steps
- 37
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL2409
- Registration
- N37413
- Type
- Boeing 737NG 924ER/W
- Airline
- United
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 258 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 10,675 ft
- Vertical rate
- -832 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a4453e
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 26.8°
- Elevation at start → end
- 21.1° → 23.7°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 337° NNW → 46° NE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 16° NNE
- Minimum slant range
- 7.2 km
- Heading at closest
- 111° ESE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (85°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:09 (68.9 s)
- Lock
- 73%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13i — slower zoom ladder (one rung, 1.5 s)
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 34.2 MB · 68.0 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
This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License