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UAL2464 United

Boeing 737 MAX 9 · N57416 · SFO → ?

· 1:03Quality 82side-onturned left 56°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
63%
First lockfrom target selected
11.1 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.30° / 0.13°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
2.40° / 0.38°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
4.4 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
—
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
30.2 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.89° / 0.17°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
2.69° / 0.89°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
8.37°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
5.21°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
1.15°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
0.87°
Zoom steps
59

Aircraft & route

Flight
UAL2464
Registration
N57416
Type
Boeing 737 MAX 9
Airline
United
From
SFO
To
—
Ground speed
293 kt
Altitude at closest
8,100 ft
Vertical rate
+3,072 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
a75fdf

Pass geometry

Max elevation
34.8°
Elevation at start → end
34.7° → 20.3°
Azimuth at start → end
267° W → 188° S
Closest-approach azimuth
265° W
Minimum slant range
4.3 km
Heading at closest
183° S
Aspect at closest
side-on (82°)
Turn
turned left 56°
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
Duration
1:03 (63.1 s)
Lock
63%

Build & tuning

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

Build
2026-10-14n — vision skyline mask 31x cheaper (loop back to ~15 Hz)
Commit
af2a83e
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
31.5 MB · 63.0 s · offset -1.5 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

This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License