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UAL195 United

Boeing 777 224ER · N77019 · MUC → SFO

· 1:02Quality 81lost lockside-on

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −68%). 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
73%
First lockfrom target selected
3.8 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.13° / 0.17°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.69° / 0.56°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
0.0 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
46.9 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
49.6 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.22° / 0.22°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.21° / 1.24°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.6
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
1.70°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.34°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.52°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.36°
Zoom steps
17

Aircraft & route

Flight
UAL195
Registration
N77019
Type
Boeing 777 224ER
Airline
United
From
MUC · Munich
To
SFO · San Francisco
Ground speed
286 kt
Altitude at closest
10,225 ft
Vertical rate
-512 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
aa6ba4

Pass geometry

Max elevation
25.6°
Elevation at start → end
25.6° → 13.8°
Azimuth at start → end
29° NNE → 76° ENE
Closest-approach azimuth
29° NNE
Minimum slant range
7.2 km
Heading at closest
110° ESE
Aspect at closest
side-on (81°)
Turn
straight (0°)
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:02 (62.0 s)
Lock
73%

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
29.2 MB · 59.5 s · offset -1.3 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
-0.27
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