TZP25 ZIPAIR
Boeing 787 8 · JA826J · SFO → NRT
· 0:24Quality 74side-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
- 60%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 7.9 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.28° / 0.29°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.67° / 0.38°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 3.7 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 5.9 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 5.9 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.16° / 0.14°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.74° / 0.51°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.08°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.07°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.93°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.33°
- Zoom steps
- 15
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- TZP25
- Registration
- JA826J
- Type
- Boeing 787 8
- Airline
- ZIPAIR
- From
- SFO · San Francisco
- To
- NRT · Tokyo
- Ground speed
- 292 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 6,550 ft
- Vertical rate
- —
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- 86d646
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 15.3°
- Elevation at start → end
- 15.3° → 14.4°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 309° NW → 288° WNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 308° NW
- Minimum slant range
- 7.5 km
- Heading at closest
- 241° WSW
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (67°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:24 (24.0 s)
- Lock
- 60%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13j — full 3.4 deg tele for slow planes (limit only above 0.5 deg/s)
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 12.5 MB · 25.0 s · offset -1.7 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