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N51HF

Cessna 206H · N51HF

· 3:22Quality 83clip shortside-onturned left 43°Dead-zone wrap

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −48%). 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
68%
First lockfrom target selected
5.6 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.18° / 0.10°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
1.48° / 0.29°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
2.4 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
6.9 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
117.5 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.27° / 0.11°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
2.16° / 0.85°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.6
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
11.42°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
2.94°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.56°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
1.00°
Zoom steps
83

Aircraft & route

Flight
N51HF
Registration
N51HF
Type
Cessna 206H
Airline
—
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
125 kt
Altitude at closest
5,650 ft
Vertical rate
0 ft/min
Category
A1
ICAO hex
a65fcb

Pass geometry

Max elevation
56.5°
Elevation at start → end
18.8° → 10.4°
Azimuth at start → end
344° NNW → 162° SSE
Closest-approach azimuth
252° WSW
Minimum slant range
2.1 km
Heading at closest
162° SSE
Aspect at closest
side-on (90°)
Turn
turned left 43°
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
Yes — pan pre-positioned across the stop
Duration
3:22 (201.6 s)
Lock
68%

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
114.9 MB · 147.4 s · offset -1.2 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