N16MF
· 2:52Quality 74lost lockside-onturned 38°
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
- 58%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 4.6 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.12° / 0.11°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.35° / 0.33°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 62.6 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 133.9 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 96.4 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.21° / 0.15°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.49° / 0.98°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.2
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 5.62°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.92°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.55°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 2.17°
- Zoom steps
- 99
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- N16MF
- Registration
- —
- Type
- —
- Airline
- —
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 322 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 12,950 ft
- Vertical rate
- -2,048 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a0f06e
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 72.2°
- Elevation at start → end
- 18.6° → 12.8°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 333° NNW → 148° SSE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 49° NE
- Minimum slant range
- 4.1 km
- Heading at closest
- 140° SE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (89°)
- Turn
- turned 38°
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 2:52 (171.8 s)
- Lock
- 58%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-15p — selection hysteresis; auto-cal drops stale bias
- Commit
- b8aa462
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 86.0 MB · 172.0 s · offset -1.2 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