Aircraft Tracking Rate
Calculate angular panning rate and exposure time limit for photographing moving aircraft.
Angular rate
8.021 deg/s
0.14000 rad/s
Max exposure
6.2 ms
0.050 deg blur limit
Transverse speed
140.00 m/s
line-of-sight component
Line-of-sight tracking
Transverse motion across the camera line of sight sets the angular panning rate.
8.021 deg/s
Angular rate
8.021 deg/s
0.14000 rad/s across the line of sight
Exposure limit
6.2 ms
holds smear below 0.050 deg
Crossing geometry
90.0 deg
140.00 m/s transverse component
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