UAE51N Emirates
Airbus A380 842 · A6-EUW · DXB → SFO
· 0:24Quality 68nose/tail
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −76%). 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
- 67%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 6.0 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.19° / 0.23°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 8.03° / 0.41°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 11.8 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 16.1 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 4.6 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.05° / 0.08°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.15° / 0.26°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.54°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.35°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.57°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.87°
- Zoom steps
- 25
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAE51N
- Registration
- A6-EUW
- Type
- Airbus A380 842
- Airline
- Emirates
- From
- DXB · Dubai
- To
- SFO · San Francisco
- Ground speed
- 274 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 10,350 ft
- Vertical rate
- -1,856 ft/min
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- 896481
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 17.5°
- Elevation at start → end
- 17.5° → 12.6°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 140° SE → 144° SE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 140° SE
- Minimum slant range
- 10.5 km
- Heading at closest
- 159° SSE
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (20°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:24 (23.6 s)
- Lock
- 67%
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
- 12.0 MB · 24.0 s · offset -1.6 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
This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License