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
- M1-92Deep Cut85points
- M10-4450Deep Cut85points
- M101 GroupDeep Cut85points
- M101 OT2015-1Deep Cut85points
- M2-42Deep Cut85points
- M31-1775Deep Cut85points
- M31-RVDeep Cut85points
- M33-013406.63Deep Cut85points
- M33-2747Deep Cut85points
- M4-18Deep Cut85points
- M51 GroupDeep Cut85points
- M59-UCD3Deep Cut85points
- M60 GroupDeep Cut85points
- M60-UCD1Deep Cut85points
- M74 GroupDeep Cut85points
- M81 Dwarf ADeep Cut85points
- M81 GroupDeep Cut85points
- M85-HCC1Deep Cut85points
- M96 GroupDeep Cut85points
- MaasymDeep Cut85points
- MACHO 176.18833.411Deep Cut85points
- MACHO 80.7443.1718Deep Cut85points
- MACHO-1997-BLG-41Deep Cut85points
- MACHO-98-BLG-35Deep Cut85points
- MACHO*05:34:41.3−69:31:39Deep Cut85points
- MacondoDeep Cut85points
- MACS 1423-z7p64Deep Cut85points
- MACS 2129-1Deep Cut85points
- MACS J0025.4-1222Deep Cut85points
- MACS J0416.1-2403Deep Cut85points
- MACS J0647.7+7015Deep Cut85points
- MACS J0717.5+3745Deep Cut85points
- MACS J1149.5+2223Deep Cut85points
- MACS J1447.4+0827 BCGDeep Cut85points
- MACS J2211.7−0349 BCGDeep Cut85points
- MACS0416 Y1Deep Cut85points
- MACS0647-JDDeep Cut85points
- MACS1149-JD1Deep Cut85points
- MadalitsoDeep Cut85points
- MADCASH-1Deep Cut85points
- MADCASH-2Deep Cut85points
- Maddalena's cloudDeep Cut85points
- MadriuDeep Cut85points
- MaenalusDeep Cut85points
- MaepingDeep Cut85points
- Maffei 1Deep Cut85points
- Maffei 2Deep Cut85points
- Maffei GroupDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic BridgeDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic StreamDeep 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.