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SAS935 Scandinavian Airlines System

CPH → SFO

· 0:36Quality 91clip shortside-onturned left 16°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −84%). 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
86%
First lockfrom target selected
5.0 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.09° / 0.13°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.23° / 0.30°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
2.3 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
—
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
29.1 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.12° / 0.16°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
0.59° / 0.78°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
1.30°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
0.87°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.55°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.00°
Zoom steps
9

Aircraft & route

Flight
SAS935
Registration
—
Type
—
Airline
Scandinavian Airlines System
From
CPH · Copenhagen
To
SFO · San Francisco
Ground speed
290 kt
Altitude at closest
11,400 ft
Vertical rate
-1,216 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
4aca67

Pass geometry

Max elevation
25.4°
Elevation at start → end
17.9° → 25.4°
Azimuth at start → end
328° NNW → 353° N
Closest-approach azimuth
353° N
Minimum slant range
8.1 km
Heading at closest
108° ESE
Aspect at closest
side-on (64°)
Turn
turned left 16°
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
0:36 (35.5 s)
Lock
86%

Build & tuning

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

Build
2026-10-16c — mount prior carried to the next target (silhouette reach reverted)
Commit
8649c7d
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
18.8 MB · 19.8 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
-0.1
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