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
- 2MASS J11011926−7732383Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J11145133-2618235Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J11151597+1937266Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J1119-1137 bDeep Cut85points
- 2MASS J11193254-1137466 ABDeep Cut85points
- 2MASS J11263991−5003550Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J12074836-3900043Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J12195156+3128497Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J1324+6358Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J13260399+7023462Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J15031961+2525196Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J15404342−5101357Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J17554042+6551277Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J18082002−5104378Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J18352154−3123385Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J18450079−1409036Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J2002-0521Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J2117-2940Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J21265040-8140293Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J21392676+0220226Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J2206+3301Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J2208+2921Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J22132050−5137385Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J22282889-4310262Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J22362452+4751425Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS J22362452+4751425 bDeep Cut85points
- 2MASS J23225299-6151275Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS-GC01Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS-GC02Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS-GC03Deep Cut85points
- 2MASS-GC04Deep Cut85points
- 2MASSI J0453264-175154Deep Cut85points
- 2MASSW J0920122+351742Deep Cut85points
- 2MASSW J2148+4003Deep Cut85points
- 2MASX J00461775-4207512Deep Cut85points
- 2MASX J00482185−2507365 occulting pairDeep Cut85points
- 2MASX J09175344+5143379Deep Cut85points
- 2MASX J09194427+5622012Deep Cut85points
- 2MASX J10222849+5006200Deep Cut85points
- 2MASX J16270254+4328340Deep Cut85points
- 2MASX J17201001+2637317Deep Cut85points
- 2MFGC 12344Deep Cut85points
- 2XMM J083026+524133Deep Cut85points
- 3 AndromedaeDeep Cut85points
- 3 AquariiDeep Cut85points
- 3 BoötisDeep Cut85points
- 3 CamelopardalisDeep Cut85points
- 3 CancriDeep Cut85points
- 3 Canum VenaticorumDeep Cut85points
- 3 CapricorniDeep Cut85points
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.