UAL1578 United
Airbus A320 232 · N465UA · SFO → ?
· 0:50Quality 86side-onturned 15°
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −57%). 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
- 74%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 9.9 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.20° / 0.15°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.55° / 0.43°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 5.6 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 7.1 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 18.2 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.28° / 0.18°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.19° / 0.90°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 3.54°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.91°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.55°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.67°
- Zoom steps
- 16
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL1578
- Registration
- N465UA
- Type
- Airbus A320 232
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 288 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 6,500 ft
- Vertical rate
- +3,904 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a5adf1
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 29.1°
- Elevation at start → end
- 29.1° → 16.8°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 273° W → 230° SW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 273° W
- Minimum slant range
- 4.2 km
- Heading at closest
- 212° SSW
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (61°)
- Turn
- turned 15°
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:50 (49.5 s)
- Lock
- 74%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-14b — steady overhead park, zoom travel guard
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 25.0 MB · 50.0 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