DAL1559 Delta Air Lines
Airbus A321neo · N597DT · SFO → ?
· 1:00Quality 72side-onturned 18°Dead-zone wrap
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −57%). 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
- 73%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 4.9 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 1.42° / 0.88°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 5.79° / 4.39°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 6.6°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 11.3 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 11.3 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
- 3.10°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.24°
- Zoom steps
- 48
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- DAL1559
- Registration
- N597DT
- Type
- Airbus A321neo
- Airline
- Delta Air Lines
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 298 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 6,700 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,944 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a7b7c5
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 40.4°
- Elevation at start → end
- 19.2° → 24.5°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 334° NNW → 215° SW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 272° W
- Minimum slant range
- 3.2 km
- Heading at closest
- 186° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (86°)
- Turn
- turned 18°
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
- Duration
- 1:00 (59.8 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
- 2026-10-13k — centred plane + noisy motion check no longer demotes the zoom
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 30.0 MB · 60.0 s · offset -1.6 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