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
- FK Comae BerenicesDeep Cut85points
- FL LyraeDeep Cut85points
- Flame NebulaDeep Cut85points
- Flaming Star NebulaDeep Cut85points
- FlegetonteDeep Cut85points
- Fleming 1Deep Cut85points
- Flower Bud NebulaDeep Cut85points
- Fly NebulaDeep Cut85points
- Flying Bat NebulaDeep Cut85points
- Flying Dragon NebulaDeep Cut85points
- Flying SaucerDeep Cut85points
- FM CirciniDeep Cut85points
- FN Canis MajorisDeep Cut85points
- FO AquariiDeep Cut85points
- FoldDeep Cut85points
- FomalhautDeep Cut85points
- Fomalhaut CDeep Cut85points
- Forgotten NebulaDeep Cut85points
- FormosaDeep Cut85points
- Fornax 1Deep Cut85points
- Fornax 2Deep Cut85points
- Fornax 4Deep Cut85points
- Fornax 5Deep Cut85points
- Fornax 6Deep Cut85points
- Fornax ADeep Cut85points
- Fornax BDeep Cut85points
- Fornax ClusterDeep Cut85points
- Fornax DwarfDeep Cut85points
- Fornax Dwarf Cluster 3Deep Cut85points
- Fornax VoidDeep Cut85points
- Fornax WallDeep Cut85points
- Fornax-Eridanus SuperclusterDeep Cut85points
- FortitudoDeep Cut85points
- Fossil Footprint NebulaDeep Cut85points
- Fourcade-Figueroa ObjectDeep Cut85points
- Fox Fur NebulaDeep Cut85points
- Foxhead ClusterDeep Cut85points
- FR Canis MajorisDeep Cut85points
- FR ScutiDeep Cut85points
- FranzDeep Cut85points
- Fried Egg GalaxyDeep Cut85points
- Frosty Leo NebulaDeep Cut85points
- FS Canis MajorisDeep Cut85points
- FS TauriDeep Cut85points
- FSC 15307+3253Deep Cut85points
- FSR 1700Deep Cut85points
- FSR 1716Deep Cut85points
- FSR 1758Deep Cut85points
- FSR 1775Deep Cut85points
- FSR 1776Deep 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.