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
- Eta Chamaeleontis moving groupDeep Cut85points
- Eta CirciniDeep Cut85points
- Eta ColumbaeDeep Cut85points
- Eta Coronae BorealisDeep Cut85points
- Eta Coronae Borealis CDeep Cut85points
- Eta CorviDeep Cut85points
- Eta CraterisDeep Cut85points
- Eta CrucisDeep Cut85points
- Eta CygniDeep Cut85points
- Eta DelphiniDeep Cut85points
- Eta GruisDeep Cut85points
- Eta HerculisDeep Cut85points
- Eta HorologiiDeep Cut85points
- Eta HydraeDeep Cut85points
- Eta IndiDeep Cut85points
- Eta LeonisDeep Cut85points
- Eta LeporisDeep Cut85points
- Eta LibraeDeep Cut85points
- Eta LupiDeep Cut85points
- Eta MensaeDeep Cut85points
- Eta MicroscopiiDeep Cut85points
- Eta MuscaeDeep Cut85points
- Eta NormaeDeep Cut85points
- Eta OctantisDeep Cut85points
- Eta OrionisDeep Cut85points
- Eta PavonisDeep Cut85points
- Eta PhoenicisDeep Cut85points
- Eta Piscis AustriniDeep Cut85points
- Eta PyxidisDeep Cut85points
- Eta ReticuliDeep Cut85points
- Eta SagittaeDeep Cut85points
- Eta SagittariiDeep Cut85points
- Eta ScorpiiDeep Cut85points
- Eta SculptorisDeep Cut85points
- Eta ScutiDeep Cut85points
- Eta SerpentisDeep Cut85points
- Eta TelescopiiDeep Cut85points
- Eta Trianguli AustralisDeep Cut85points
- Eta TucanaeDeep Cut85points
- Eta Twin-1Deep Cut85points
- Eta Ursae MinorisDeep Cut85points
- Eta VolantisDeep Cut85points
- Eta1 Coronae AustralisDeep Cut85points
- Eta1 DoradusDeep Cut85points
- Eta1 FornacisDeep Cut85points
- Eta1 HydriDeep Cut85points
- Eta1 PictorisDeep Cut85points
- Eta1 Trianguli AustralisDeep Cut85points
- Eta2 Coronae AustralisDeep Cut85points
- Eta2 DoradusDeep 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.