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ANA7 All Nippon Airways

Boeing 777 381ER · JA790A · SFO → NRT

· 1:07Quality 86nose/tail

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −76%). 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
66%
First lockfrom target selected
12.5 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.57° / 0.42°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
3.28° / 1.78°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
5.0°
Time to 8°from first lock
39.9 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
48.7 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
5.1 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.42° / 0.47°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.11° / 1.36°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
2.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
0.73°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
0.43°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
1.01°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
2.21°
Zoom steps
51

Aircraft & route

Flight
ANA7
Registration
JA790A
Type
Boeing 777 381ER (B77W)
Airline
All Nippon Airways
From
SFO · San Francisco
To
NRT · Tokyo
Ground speed
202 kt
Altitude at closest
1,025 ft
Vertical rate
+3,072 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
8694b6

Pass geometry

Max elevation
86.8°
Elevation at start → end
0.1° → 11.8°
Azimuth at start → end
116° ESE → 299° WNW
Closest-approach azimuth
40° NE
Minimum slant range
359 m
Heading at closest
296° WNW
Aspect at closest
nose/tail (1°)
Turn
straight (4°)
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:07 (66.7 s)
Lock
66%

Build & tuning

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

Build
2026-10-15q — drive speed latched at the lens position; measured speed bytes only; auto-cal keeps gains
Commit
44f2d6a
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
33.5 MB · 67.0 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
-0.11
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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