UAL2831 United
Boeing 737-900 · N17594 · SFO → ?
· 1:00Quality 87side-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −74%). 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
- 73%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 8.6 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.12° / 0.14°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.35° / 0.40°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 10.0 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- —
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 39.9 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.13° / 0.19°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.95° / 1.01°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.95°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.54°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.93°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 1.12°
- Zoom steps
- 38
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL2831
- Registration
- N17594
- Type
- Boeing 737-900
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 297 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 7,425 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,048 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a12f70
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 21.5°
- Elevation at start → end
- 16.1° → 18.9°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 300° WNW → 224° SW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 257° WSW
- Minimum slant range
- 6.1 km
- Heading at closest
- 176° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (81°)
- Turn
- straight (11°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:00 (59.5 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
- 2026-10-15r — keep the target past the sun; paced speed re-latch
- Commit
- 05024bb
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 29.5 MB · 59.0 s · offset -0.9 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
- -0.21
- 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