UPS2252 UPS
Boeing 747 8F · N627UP · SDF → HNL
· 1:03Quality 90side-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −79%). 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
- 84%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 9.8 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.15° / 0.13°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.98° / 0.41°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 17.9 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 20.1 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 32.4 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.12° / 0.12°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.58° / 0.69°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 2.50°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.21°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.78°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 2.14°
- Zoom steps
- 37
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UPS2252
- Registration
- N627UP
- Type
- Boeing 747 8F (B748)
- Airline
- UPS
- From
- SDF · Louisville
- To
- HNL · Honolulu
- Ground speed
- 494 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 39,875 ft
- Vertical rate
- 0 ft/min
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- a8320e
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 78.0°
- Elevation at start → end
- 73.1° → 42.1°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 118° ESE → 243° WSW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 164° SSE
- Minimum slant range
- 12.4 km
- Heading at closest
- 254° WSW
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (90°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:03 (62.6 s)
- Lock
- 84%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-15t — vertical rate falls back to geom_rate (server)
- Commit
- 218644c
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 28.1 MB · 57.4 s · offset -0.8 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