UAL2179 United
· 0:17Quality 65soft focusside-on
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −83%). 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
- 63%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 6.2 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.11° / 0.13°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 0.26° / 0.87°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 2.3 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 4.4 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 6.8 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.15° / 0.10°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.55° / 0.35°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 0.0
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.51°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.40°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 0.51°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 2.24°
- Zoom steps
- 22
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- UAL2179
- Registration
- —
- Type
- —
- Airline
- United
- From
- —
- To
- —
- Ground speed
- 293 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 11,525 ft
- Vertical rate
- 0 ft/min
- Category
- A3
- ICAO hex
- a0b7df
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 21.3°
- Elevation at start → end
- 18.2° → 21.3°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 332° NNW → 344° NNW
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 344° NNW
- Minimum slant range
- 9.7 km
- Heading at closest
- 108° ESE
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (56°)
- Turn
- straight (0°)
- Departure
- No
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 0:17 (17.0 s)
- Lock
- 63%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-16h — lock-first association on (A/B −40% tele gaps)
- Commit
- dfc3684
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 8.4 MB · 17.0 s · offset -1.4 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
- -0.24
- 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