N7942C
Piper PA-32R-300 · N7942C
· 1:24Quality 85side-onturned right 18°Overhead
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −57%). 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
- 68%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 14.6 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.22° / 0.19°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 1.32° / 1.95°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 5.0 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 66.6 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 38.0 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.20° / 0.17°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.01° / 0.89°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 5.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.13°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 3.58°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.80°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.98°
- Zoom steps
- 75
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- N7942C
- Registration
- N7942C
- Type
- Piper PA-32R-300
- Airline
- —
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 110 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 1,900 ft
- Vertical rate
- 0 ft/min
- Category
- A1
- ICAO hex
- aac982
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 71.4°
- Elevation at start → end
- 12.9° → 14.8°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 200° SSW → 34° NE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 118° ESE
- Minimum slant range
- 630 m
- Heading at closest
- 28° NNE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (90°)
- Turn
- turned right 18°
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- Yes — camera flipped over the top
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:24 (84.1 s)
- Lock
- 68%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-15o — sun keep-out by the frame; no video, no pass
- Commit
- cb31ea0
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 39.5 MB · 80.0 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