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
- Kappa DoradusDeep Cut85points
- Kappa DraconisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa EridaniDeep Cut85points
- Kappa FornacisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa GeminorumDeep Cut85points
- Kappa GruisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa HydraeDeep Cut85points
- Kappa HydriDeep Cut85points
- Kappa LeporisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa LibraeDeep Cut85points
- Kappa LupiDeep Cut85points
- Kappa LyraeDeep Cut85points
- Kappa MensaeDeep Cut85points
- Kappa NormaeDeep Cut85points
- Kappa OctantisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa OphiuchiDeep Cut85points
- Kappa PavonisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa PegasiDeep Cut85points
- Kappa PhoenicisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa PictorisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa PisciumDeep Cut85points
- Kappa PyxidisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa ReticuliDeep Cut85points
- Kappa TauriDeep Cut85points
- Kappa TelescopiiDeep Cut85points
- Kappa Trianguli AustralisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa TucanaeDeep Cut85points
- Kappa VolantisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa1 ApodisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa1 BoötisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa1 CetiDeep Cut85points
- Kappa1 Coronae AustralisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa1 LupiDeep Cut85points
- Kappa1 SagittariiDeep Cut85points
- Kappa1 SculptorisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa1 TauriDeep Cut85points
- Kappa1 VolantisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa2 ApodisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa2 BoötisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa2 CetiDeep Cut85points
- Kappa2 Coronae AustralisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa2 IndiDeep Cut85points
- Kappa2 LupiDeep Cut85points
- Kappa2 SagittariiDeep Cut85points
- Kappa2 SculptorisDeep Cut85points
- Kappa2 TauriDeep Cut85points
- Kappa2 VolantisDeep Cut85points
- Kapteyn bDeep Cut85points
- Kapteyn cDeep Cut85points
- Kapteyn's StarDeep 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.