Krillion Recorded answers
30,029 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work from the smallest scale outward rather than trying to recall a single famous object. List the categories that can satisfy the size test — planets, natural satellites, stars, nebulae, clusters, galaxies — and then ask which members of each you can actually name with confidence. Anything with a catalogue number or a Bayer-style letter counts, so you are not restricted to household names; star catalogues alone supply thousands of valid answers. Weigh your options by how distinctive they are, not by how impressive they sound: a well-known giant is safe but widely shared, while an obscure survey object is harder to verify but far less crowded. Before committing, sanity-check the diameter against the lunar baseline so you do not lose the point on a technicality.
Get a hint
Begin at the scale you can picture without effort and then widen the frame, because the answer does not have to be something famous, only something real and large enough to be measured.
A little more
Then think in terms of catalogues, since most qualifying objects are not famous at all: they carry numbers, Greek letters or survey codes instead of memorable names.
One step further
Finally stretch the scale to its extremes, because the biggest candidates can be whole galaxies or gas clouds spanning many times the width of any planet, and those uncommon answers tend to be worth more.
Reveal answers 30,029
- Hickson 40Deep Cut85points
- Hickson 74Deep Cut85points
- Hidden GalaxyDeep Cut85points
- HiisiDeep Cut85points
- Hilda asteroidsDeep Cut85points
- Hills cloudDeep Cut85points
- Himiko (Lyman-alpha blob)Deep Cut85points
- Hind's Crimson StarDeep Cut85points
- Hind's NebulaDeep Cut85points
- HIP 100963Deep Cut85points
- HIP 105854 bDeep Cut85points
- HIP 107772Deep Cut85points
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- HIP 107773Deep Cut85points
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- HIP 109384Deep Cut85points
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- HIP 109600Deep Cut85points
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- HIP 113103Deep Cut85points
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- HIP 113103 cDeep Cut85points
- HIP 114933Deep Cut85points
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- HIP 116454Deep Cut85points
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- HIP 11915Deep Cut85points
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- HIP 11952Deep Cut85points
- HIP 13044Deep Cut85points
- HIP 14810Deep Cut85points
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- HIP 14810 cDeep Cut85points
- HIP 14810 dDeep Cut85points
- HIP 17453Deep Cut85points
- HIP 19976Deep Cut85points
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- HIP 29442Deep Cut85points
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- HIP 29442 cDeep Cut85points
- HIP 29442 dDeep Cut85points
- HIP 3206 bDeep Cut85points
- HIP 34222Deep Cut85points
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- HIP 35173Deep Cut85points
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- HIP 35965Deep Cut85points
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- HIP 38594Deep Cut85points
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Why these answers count
The reveal held 30,029 recorded answers, and the distribution is unusually lopsided: a single entry at 100 points, 29,941 sitting at 85, and 72 scraping 60. That shape tells you most solvers converged on the same safe territory. The 85-point band is dominated by numbered stellar designations such as 1 Aquarii or 10 Andromedae — individually correct, trivially generated, and therefore shared by thousands of players, which caps their value. Bare catalogue codes behave the same way: 0313-192 and 037-B327 are perfectly valid picks, yet they still landed at 85, because hundreds of players reached for the same lists. The lone 100-point answer, Hanny's Voorwerp, is a different animal — a genuinely distinctive, almost quirky object that few would name unprompted, and the scoring rewarded that originality. Answers that fell to 60 were presumably vaguer or even more heavily repeated. The lesson: correctness gets you into the 85-point band, but only a memorable, unexpected object breaks past it.