UAL837 United
Boeing 777 300ER · N2748U · SFO → NRT
· 0:59Quality 70nose/tail
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −84%). 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
- 57%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 21.3 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.56° / 0.37°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 2.45° / 2.56°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 27.9 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- —
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 6.6 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.09° / 0.10°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.20° / 0.22°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 3.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.61°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.45°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.14°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 0.86°
- Zoom steps
- 48
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL837
- Registration
- N2748U
- Type
- Boeing 777 300ER (B77W)
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO · San Francisco
- To
- NRT · Tokyo
- Ground speed
- 203 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 1,050 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,304 ft/min
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- a2b8db
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 81.6°
- Elevation at start → end
- 0.2° → 11.8°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 116° ESE → 299° WNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 26° NNE
- Minimum slant range
- 345 m
- Heading at closest
- 297° WNW
- Aspect at closest
- nose/tail (5°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:59 (59.1 s)
- Lock
- 57%
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
- 27.6 MB · 57.0 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