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N595AB

Cessna Citation Sovereign · N595AB

· 2:27Quality 89side-on

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −76%). 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
81%
First lockfrom target selected
17.3 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.13° / 0.14°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.48° / 0.39°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
15.5 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
81.3 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
82.0 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.23° / 0.20°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.71° / 1.57°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.5
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
7.11°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
3.62°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.62°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.98°
Zoom steps
48

Aircraft & route

Flight
N595AB
Registration
N595AB
Type
Cessna Citation Sovereign
Airline
—
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
337 kt
Altitude at closest
11,825 ft
Vertical rate
+1,920 ft/min
Category
A2
ICAO hex
a7affc

Pass geometry

Max elevation
66.5°
Elevation at start → end
17.7° → 15.3°
Azimuth at start → end
23° NNE → 187° S
Closest-approach azimuth
103° ESE
Minimum slant range
4.0 km
Heading at closest
192° SSW
Aspect at closest
side-on (89°)
Turn
straight (0°)
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
2:27 (147.4 s)
Lock
81%

Build & tuning

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

Build
2026-10-14m — upstream carries fields missing from one poll
Commit
5b2d779
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
73.9 MB · 148.0 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
sigmaGrowthDps
0.1
aimLeadSec
-0.16
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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