UAL1259 United
Boeing 737-9 · N17566 · SJC → DEN
· 0:17Quality 68side-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −59%). Download
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Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.
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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
- 50%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 6.6 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.65° / 0.29°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 1.16° / 1.84°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 5.0°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 4.1 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 5.8 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 1.6 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- —
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- —
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.09°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.39°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 2.06°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.73°
- Zoom steps
- 15
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL1259
- Registration
- N17566
- Type
- Boeing 737-9
- Airline
- United
- From
- SJC · San Jose
- To
- DEN · Denver
- Ground speed
- 285 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 5,900 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,624 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a12f09
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 31.2°
- Elevation at start → end
- 19.2° → 31.2°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 329° NNW → 300° WNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 300° WNW
- Minimum slant range
- 3.6 km
- Heading at closest
- 185° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (65°)
- Turn
- straight (5°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:17 (16.9 s)
- Lock
- 50%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-14c — steady overhead park, zoom travel guard v2
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 8.5 MB · 17.0 s · offset -1.4 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