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
- CatalinetaDeep Cut85points
- Cave NebulaDeep Cut85points
- CayahuancaDeep Cut85points
- Cayrel's StarDeep Cut85points
- CB 130-3Deep Cut85points
- CC AndromedaeDeep Cut85points
- CC EridaniDeep Cut85points
- CD CetiDeep Cut85points
- CD Ceti bDeep Cut85points
- CD CrucisDeep Cut85points
- CD–34°11794Deep Cut85points
- CD−34 8618Deep Cut85points
- CD−35 2722Deep Cut85points
- CD−44 170Deep Cut85points
- CD−73°375Deep Cut85points
- CDG-2Deep Cut85points
- CE AntliaeDeep Cut85points
- CE CamelopardalisDeep Cut85points
- CE GruisDeep Cut85points
- CebalraiDeep Cut85points
- CEERS 1019Deep Cut85points
- CEERS-2112Deep Cut85points
- CEERS-93316Deep Cut85points
- CEERS2-588Deep Cut85points
- CeiboDeep Cut85points
- CelaenoDeep Cut85points
- Celestial Snow AngelDeep Cut85points
- CEN 16Deep Cut85points
- Centaurus ADeep Cut85points
- Centaurus A/M83 GroupDeep Cut85points
- Centaurus ClusterDeep Cut85points
- Centaurus IDeep Cut85points
- Centaurus NDeep Cut85points
- Centaurus WallDeep Cut85points
- Central Molecular ZoneDeep Cut85points
- Cepheus ADeep Cut85points
- Cepheus BDeep Cut85points
- Cepheus FlareDeep Cut85points
- Cepheus OB1Deep Cut85points
- CervantesDeep Cut85points
- Cetus DwarfDeep Cut85points
- Cetus GroupDeep Cut85points
- Cetus IIDeep Cut85points
- Cetus IIIDeep Cut85points
- Cetus Polar StreamDeep Cut85points
- Cetus-Aries CloudDeep Cut85points
- CexingDeep Cut85points
- CfA2 Great WallDeep Cut85points
- CFBDS 1458Deep Cut85points
- CFBDS 1458 bDeep 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.