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
- DENIS J081730.0-615520Deep Cut85points
- DENIS J082303.1-491201 ADeep Cut85points
- DENIS J082303.1-491201 BDeep Cut85points
- DENIS J082303.1−491201Deep Cut85points
- DENIS J1048−3956Deep Cut85points
- DENIS-P J020529.0-115925Deep Cut85points
- DENIS-P J020529.0-115925 ADeep Cut85points
- DENIS-P J020529.0-115925 BDeep Cut85points
- DENIS-P J020529.0-115925 CDeep Cut85points
- DENIS-P J1058.7-1548Deep Cut85points
- DENIS-P J1228.2-1547Deep Cut85points
- DES 1Deep Cut85points
- DES J025216.64-050331.8Deep Cut85points
- DF TauriDeep Cut85points
- DG Canum VenaticorumDeep Cut85points
- DG TauriDeep Cut85points
- DG Tauri BDeep Cut85points
- DGSAT IDeep Cut85points
- DH CepheiDeep Cut85points
- DH Tau BDeep Cut85points
- DH TauriDeep Cut85points
- DH Tauri bDeep Cut85points
- DhanishtaDeep Cut85points
- DhanuśarāgraDeep Cut85points
- DI ChamaeleontisDeep Cut85points
- DI HerculisDeep Cut85points
- DI LacertaeDeep Cut85points
- DiademDeep Cut85points
- Diamond Ring NebulaDeep Cut85points
- Digel Cloud 2SDeep Cut85points
- DilmunDeep Cut85points
- DimidiumDeep Cut85points
- DingolayDeep Cut85points
- DiphdaDeep Cut85points
- Dipole RepellerDeep Cut85points
- Ditsö̀Deep Cut85points
- DìwöDeep Cut85points
- DiyaDeep Cut85points
- Djorgovski 1Deep Cut85points
- Djorgovski 2Deep Cut85points
- DK LacertaeDeep Cut85points
- DL CrucisDeep Cut85points
- DL TauriDeep Cut85points
- DM GeminorumDeep Cut85points
- DM LyraeDeep Cut85points
- DM Ursae MajorisDeep Cut85points
- DMPP-1Deep Cut85points
- DMPP-1 bDeep Cut85points
- DMPP-1 cDeep Cut85points
- DMPP-1 dDeep 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.