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
- Delta HorologiiDeep Cut85points
- Delta HydraeDeep Cut85points
- Delta HydriDeep Cut85points
- Delta IndiDeep Cut85points
- Delta LeporisDeep Cut85points
- Delta LibraeDeep Cut85points
- Delta LupiDeep Cut85points
- Delta Lyrae clusterDeep Cut85points
- Delta MensaeDeep Cut85points
- Delta MicroscopiiDeep Cut85points
- Delta MonocerotisDeep Cut85points
- Delta MuscaeDeep Cut85points
- Delta NormaeDeep Cut85points
- Delta OctantisDeep Cut85points
- Delta PavonisDeep Cut85points
- Delta PerseiDeep Cut85points
- Delta PhoenicisDeep Cut85points
- Delta PictorisDeep Cut85points
- Delta Piscis AustriniDeep Cut85points
- Delta PyxidisDeep Cut85points
- Delta ReticuliDeep Cut85points
- Delta SagittaeDeep Cut85points
- Delta SculptorisDeep Cut85points
- Delta ScutiDeep Cut85points
- Delta SerpentisDeep Cut85points
- Delta SextantisDeep Cut85points
- Delta TrianguliDeep Cut85points
- Delta Trianguli AustralisDeep Cut85points
- Delta TucanaeDeep Cut85points
- Delta VolantisDeep Cut85points
- Delta1 ApodisDeep Cut85points
- Delta1 Canis MinorisDeep Cut85points
- Delta1 ChamaeleontisDeep Cut85points
- Delta1 GruisDeep Cut85points
- Delta1 LyraeDeep Cut85points
- Delta1 TelescopiiDeep Cut85points
- Delta2 ApodisDeep Cut85points
- Delta2 Canis MinorisDeep Cut85points
- Delta2 ChamaeleontisDeep Cut85points
- Delta2 GruisDeep Cut85points
- Delta2 TauriDeep Cut85points
- Delta2 TelescopiiDeep Cut85points
- Delta3 Canis MinorisDeep Cut85points
- Delta3 TauriDeep Cut85points
- DeltotonDeep Cut85points
- DEM L71Deep Cut85points
- Deneb AlgediDeep Cut85points
- DenebolaDeep Cut85points
- DENIS 0255−4700Deep Cut85points
- DENIS 0334-49Deep 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.