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ASA753 Alaska

Boeing 737NG 890/W · N590AS · SFO → ?

· 1:02Quality 80lost lockside-onturned left 44°Dead-zone wrap

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −66%). Download

Trace

Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.

—FOV —az —el —pose —
Lock

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
68%
First lockfrom target selected
9.3 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.70° / 0.19°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
2.32° / 1.15°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
5.2 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
—
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
21.2 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.98° / 0.18°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
3.53° / 0.71°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.9
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
13.27°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
4.56°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
1.23°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.03°
Zoom steps
44

Aircraft & route

Flight
ASA753
Registration
N590AS
Type
Boeing 737NG 890/W
Airline
Alaska
From
SFO
To
—
Ground speed
297 kt
Altitude at closest
8,225 ft
Vertical rate
+3,136 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
a79d78

Pass geometry

Max elevation
33.5°
Elevation at start → end
18.7° → 30.6°
Azimuth at start → end
325° NW → 213° SSW
Closest-approach azimuth
265° W
Minimum slant range
4.5 km
Heading at closest
184° S
Aspect at closest
side-on (82°)
Turn
turned left 44°
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
Duration
1:02 (62.0 s)
Lock
68%

Build & tuning

The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.

Build
2026-10-14g — vision expected spot at frame time, departure pre-zoom, focus from profile, damped lead learner
Commit
181d1fa+wip
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
31.0 MB · 62.0 s · offset -1.1 s
pursuit
velocity
maxLeadSec
3
panLatencySec
0.6
tiltLatencySec
0.4
rippleDeg
0.5
rippleTeleDeg
0.25
maxSpeedStepFwps
0.45
speedReachFrac
0.8
lockedSigmaDeg
0.35
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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