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
- CFBDS J005910.90-011401.3Deep Cut85points
- CFBDSIR 1458+10Deep Cut85points
- CFBDSIR 1458+10 ADeep Cut85points
- CFBDSIR 1458+10 BDeep Cut85points
- CFBDSIR 2149-0403Deep Cut85points
- CFBDSIR2149Deep Cut85points
- CFHQS J0033-0125Deep Cut85points
- CFHQS J1509-1749Deep Cut85points
- CFHQS J1641+3755Deep Cut85points
- CFHQS J2329-0301Deep Cut85points
- CFHTWIR-Oph 98 ADeep Cut85points
- CFHTWIR-Oph 98 A bDeep Cut85points
- CFHTWIR-Oph 98 bDeep Cut85points
- CG 4Deep Cut85points
- CG CygniDeep Cut85points
- CGCG 044-046Deep Cut85points
- CGCG 049-033Deep Cut85points
- CGCG 396-002Deep Cut85points
- CH CygniDeep Cut85points
- Cha 1107-7626Deep Cut85points
- Cha 110913-773444Deep Cut85points
- Cha H-alpha 8Deep Cut85points
- Cha J1110-7633Deep Cut85points
- Cha J11110675-7636030Deep Cut85points
- ChaHa8 bDeep Cut85points
- ChalawanDeep Cut85points
- Chamaeleon CloudDeep Cut85points
- Chamaeleon I associationDeep Cut85points
- ChamukuyDeep Cut85points
- ChaophrayaDeep Cut85points
- CharaDeep Cut85points
- ChasoňDeep Cut85points
- ChechiaDeep Cut85points
- ChertanDeep Cut85points
- Chi AndromedaeDeep Cut85points
- Chi AquariiDeep Cut85points
- Chi AquilaeDeep Cut85points
- Chi AurigaeDeep Cut85points
- Chi BoötisDeep Cut85points
- Chi CancriDeep Cut85points
- Chi CapricorniDeep Cut85points
- Chi CarinaeDeep Cut85points
- Chi CassiopeiaeDeep Cut85points
- Chi CentauriDeep Cut85points
- Chi CetiDeep Cut85points
- Chi CygniDeep Cut85points
- Chi DraconisDeep Cut85points
- Chi EridaniDeep Cut85points
- Chi GeminorumDeep Cut85points
- Chi HerculisDeep 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.