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SIS869

· 1:27Quality 90nose/tail

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −71%). 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
88%
First lockfrom target selected
5.6 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.13° / 0.18°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.65° / 0.70°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
10.1 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
59.7 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
56.9 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.21° / 0.27°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.52° / 1.41°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
1.8
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
7.64°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
5.75°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.59°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.17°
Zoom steps
61

Aircraft & route

Flight
SIS869
Registration
—
Type
—
Airline
—
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
278 kt
Altitude at closest
6,175 ft
Vertical rate
—
Category
A2
ICAO hex
abf16e

Pass geometry

Max elevation
88.7°
Elevation at start → end
26.9° → 12.2°
Azimuth at start → end
15° NNE → 194° SSW
Closest-approach azimuth
103° ESE
Minimum slant range
1.9 km
Heading at closest
194° SSW
Aspect at closest
nose/tail (3°)
Turn
straight (0°)
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:27 (87.1 s)
Lock
88%

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
43.5 MB · 87.0 s · offset -1.4 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