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DLH454 Lufthansa

Boeing 747 830 · D-ABYC · FRA → SFO

· 2:05Quality 97side-on

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −78%). 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
92%
First lockfrom target selected
5.7 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.14° / 0.18°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.39° / 0.41°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
5.3 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
10.6 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
76.7 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.19° / 0.22°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
1.29° / 1.26°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.3
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
6.89°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
3.00°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.67°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
2.52°
Zoom steps
23

Aircraft & route

Flight
DLH454
Registration
D-ABYC
Type
Boeing 747 830
Airline
Lufthansa
From
FRA · Frankfurt am Main
To
SFO · San Francisco
Ground speed
250 kt
Altitude at closest
11,525 ft
Vertical rate
-64 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
3c4b23

Pass geometry

Max elevation
70.2°
Elevation at start → end
17.8° → 32.0°
Azimuth at start → end
327° NNW → 128° SE
Closest-approach azimuth
51° NE
Minimum slant range
3.8 km
Heading at closest
140° SE
Aspect at closest
side-on (89°)
Turn
straight (5°)
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
2:05 (124.5 s)
Lock
92%

Build & tuning

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

Build
2026-10-16b — silhouette fallback reach 0.8° + multipart uploads
Commit
2ed816b
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
62.5 MB · 125.0 s · offset -1.8 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
-0.03
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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