I took this picture on the morning of October 16, 2022, in the hope of capturing a small part of the gravity-slingshot passage of the NASA spacecraft Lucy, which had skimmed the Earth’s outer atmosphere just a half hour earlier over Australia. I was (barely) successful. The craft was about two magnitudes fainter than predicted, and shows up as the faintest of lines amid the much shorter star trails (an effect of the Earth’s rotation in the short time of the exposures). Enlargement makes the spacecraft’s track a little more obvious – see the next image. While recording the photos, I scanned the area with 10x50 binoculars, but did not pick out Lucy visually in spite of a very clear (if not dark) sky. Overhead, the last quarter moon shone brightly near Mars amid bright wintertime constellations.