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
- Iota HerculisDeep Cut85points
- Iota HorologiiDeep Cut85points
- Iota HydriDeep Cut85points
- Iota IndiDeep Cut85points
- Iota LeonisDeep Cut85points
- Iota LeporisDeep Cut85points
- Iota LupiDeep Cut85points
- Iota LyraeDeep Cut85points
- Iota MensaeDeep Cut85points
- Iota MicroscopiiDeep Cut85points
- Iota OctantisDeep Cut85points
- Iota OphiuchiDeep Cut85points
- Iota PavonisDeep Cut85points
- Iota PegasiDeep Cut85points
- Iota PerseiDeep Cut85points
- Iota PhoenicisDeep Cut85points
- Iota PictorisDeep Cut85points
- Iota ReticuliDeep Cut85points
- Iota SagittariiDeep Cut85points
- Iota SculptorisDeep Cut85points
- Iota SerpentisDeep Cut85points
- Iota TauriDeep Cut85points
- Iota TelescopiiDeep Cut85points
- Iota TrianguliDeep Cut85points
- Iota Trianguli AustralisDeep Cut85points
- Iota TucanaeDeep Cut85points
- Iota VolantisDeep Cut85points
- Iota1 CygniDeep Cut85points
- Iota1 FornacisDeep Cut85points
- Iota1 LibraeDeep Cut85points
- Iota1 MuscaeDeep Cut85points
- Iota1 NormaeDeep Cut85points
- Iota1 ScorpiiDeep Cut85points
- Iota2 CygniDeep Cut85points
- Iota2 FornacisDeep Cut85points
- Iota2 LibraeDeep Cut85points
- Iota2 MuscaeDeep Cut85points
- Iota2 NormaeDeep Cut85points
- Iota2 ScorpiiDeep Cut85points
- iPTF14hlsDeep Cut85points
- IQ AurigaeDeep Cut85points
- IRAS 00500+6713Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 01003−2238Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 04125+2902Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 04125+2902 bDeep Cut85points
- IRAS 04416+1215Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 04509-6922Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 05189−2524Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 05280−6910Deep Cut85points
- IRAS 05437+2502Deep 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.