UAL2478 United
Airbus A320 232 · N458UA
· 0:46Quality 85nose/tailturned 19°
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
- 76%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 6.5 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.14° / 0.14°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.38° / 0.28°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 8.6 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 25.3 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 21.2 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.20° / 0.18°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.75° / 0.83°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.55°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.18°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.41°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.59°
- Zoom steps
- 25
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL2478
- Registration
- N458UA
- Type
- Airbus A320 232
- Airline
- United
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 277 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 11,425 ft
- Vertical rate
- 0 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a59197
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 40.5°
- Elevation at start → end
- 40.5° → 17.7°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 122° ESE → 141° SE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 122° ESE
- Minimum slant range
- 5.4 km
- Heading at closest
- 143° SE
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (21°)
- Turn
- turned 19°
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:46 (45.6 s)
- Lock
- 76%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-14k — loop integrates real tick time; aim lead −0.2 s
- Commit
- 33c2b35-k
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 22.5 MB · 45.0 s · offset -0.9 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
- sigmaGrowthDps
- 0.1
- aimLeadSec
- -0.28
- 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