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One last puzzle. Here's the first frame of the zip-off It looks like there's no motion in the background. Is this the object moving before the camera moves? No. Notice that not only is the background not moving, but none of the lower numbers...

That said... One thing that's bugging me is getting the altitude of the drone right. Something I discussed in the video...

A Pentagon plan to use a high-energy, counter-drone laser without having coordinated with the Federal Aviation Administration about potential risks to civilian flights prompted Wednesday's unprecedented airspace shutdown over El Paso, Texas...

A balloon! A U.S. official confirmed to Fox News that the U.S. military earlier this week shot down what was later determined to be a party balloon near El Paso, Texas, after initially assessing it as a possible foreign drone. The...

I just didn't think about it. I think maybe the next step is to get a simulation with an object in the right position, try to match the FOV, and see how it zips off. A bit fiddly with the noisy data. I coded all the OSD data extraction rather...

Looks like light pillars to me.

This is the sitch I used in the video (with one point early on adjusted, no change to the zip-off portion) https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=https://sitrec.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1/syria%20with%20Flight%20Sim%20Track/20260211_093535.js...

The Federal Aviation Administration issued unexplained notices late Tuesday closing airspace over El Paso and a large patch of southern New Mexico west of Santa Teresa for 10 days. El Paso International Airport is closed to all flights, the city...

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhNkkyfkMCc

That's great. Sitrec is becoming a beast with all these features!

Sterling work! Yesterday I did a bunch of work on Sitrec to make OSD (On Screen Display) number extraction easier. Duplicating/verifying your numbers I also created a version of the video with the cleaner 50% speed version (which, it turned...

Here is a plot of "Easting" and "Northing" (MGRS values) versus frame number, using Mick's cleaner version from post #51, that starts a bit before the loss of lock. Although the last two MGRS digits are easier to see in this version, they are...

How accurate is the MGRS data? It's being calculated from the position of the drone angle of the camera down to a point on a 3D model of the ground over 20 miles away, so in that sense it's amzing it gets anywhere near accurate. But do we have...

NAR mode, it'd be in the FOV. And because it is visible in NAR at the beginning, it would probably be visible too. Frustrating, like FLIR1 and that cut without a wider view being shown.

But where is the object when they zoom out again? When it zips off, it seems to do this because the camera is no longer panning right. It zips off at a high apparent speed. In the video above I have adjusted the zoom levels so they are all...