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ASA1457 Alaska

Boeing 737-9 · N903AK · SFO → ?

· 2:06Quality 72lost lockside-onturned left 43°Dead-zone wrap

3D replay

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
59%
First lockfrom target selected
8.0 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.12° / 0.10°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.29° / 0.56°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
4.1°
Time to 8°from first lock
2.4 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
5.0 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
81.9 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.19° / 0.31°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.10° / 1.83°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.1
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
2.20°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.23°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.63°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
2.23°
Zoom steps
55

Aircraft & route

Flight
ASA1457
Registration
N903AK
Type
Boeing 737-9
Airline
Alaska
From
SFO
To
—
Ground speed
296 kt
Altitude at closest
8,825 ft
Vertical rate
+3,264 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
ac7a5b

Pass geometry

Max elevation
25.7°
Elevation at start → end
25.3° → 13.1°
Azimuth at start → end
263° W → 165° SSE
Closest-approach azimuth
252° WSW
Minimum slant range
6.1 km
Heading at closest
177° S
Aspect at closest
side-on (75°)
Turn
turned left 43°
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
Duration
2:06 (126.1 s)
Lock
59%

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
62.5 MB · 125.6 s · offset -1.7 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
-0.03
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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