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UAE51N Emirates

Airbus A380 842 · A6-EVJ · SFO → ?

· 1:55Quality 85lost lockclip shortside-onturned left 107°

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −70%). 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
75%
First lockfrom target selected
10.3 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.20° / 0.34°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
2.11° / 2.57°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
9.6 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
79.7 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
41.1 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.31° / 0.29°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
2.46° / 1.98°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.5
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
8.94°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
3.50°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.89°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
2.83°
Zoom steps
87

Aircraft & route

Flight
UAE51N
Registration
A6-EVJ
Type
Airbus A380 842
Airline
Emirates
From
SFO
To
—
Ground speed
234 kt
Altitude at closest
4,200 ft
Vertical rate
+896 ft/min
Category
A5
ICAO hex
8964e1

Pass geometry

Max elevation
69.5°
Elevation at start → end
13.9° → 10.7°
Azimuth at start → end
115° ESE → 205° SSW
Closest-approach azimuth
173° S
Minimum slant range
1.4 km
Heading at closest
262° W
Aspect at closest
side-on (89°)
Turn
turned left 107°
Departure
Yes — climbing out after take-off
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:55 (114.7 s)
Lock
75%

Build & tuning

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

Build
2026-10-16e — A/B mountPrior + candidate diagnostics
Commit
ffe4b92
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
66.4 MB · 80.6 s · offset -0.3 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