UAL1257 United
Boeing 737-8 · N27334 · SFO → ?
· 1:33Quality 96clip shortside-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −82%). Download
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Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.
—FOV —az —el —pose —
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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
- 93%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 6.4 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.11° / 0.12°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.29° / 0.42°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 3.4°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 5.5 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 76.4 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 76.8 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.14° / 0.20°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 1.10° / 1.13°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.97°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.56°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.79°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 2.84°
- Zoom steps
- 37
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL1257
- Registration
- N27334
- Type
- Boeing 737-8
- Airline
- United
- From
- SFO
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 284 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 8,025 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,816 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a2b47f
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 25.4°
- Elevation at start → end
- 16.4° → 17.4°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 313° NW → 215° SW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 262° W
- Minimum slant range
- 5.6 km
- Heading at closest
- 184° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (78°)
- Turn
- straight (9°)
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:33 (92.6 s)
- Lock
- 93%
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
- 51.2 MB · 65.1 s · offset -0.4 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