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
- gamma Libra bDeep Cut85points
- gamma LibraiDeep Cut85points
- gamma Librai cDeep Cut85points
- Gamma LupiDeep Cut85points
- Gamma MensaeDeep Cut85points
- Gamma MicroscopiiDeep Cut85points
- Gamma MonocerotisDeep Cut85points
- Gamma MuscaeDeep Cut85points
- Gamma PavonisDeep Cut85points
- Gamma PerseiDeep Cut85points
- Gamma PhoenicisDeep Cut85points
- Gamma PictorisDeep Cut85points
- Gamma Piscis AustriniDeep Cut85points
- Gamma PyxidisDeep Cut85points
- Gamma ReticuliDeep Cut85points
- Gamma SculptorisDeep Cut85points
- Gamma ScutiDeep Cut85points
- Gamma SextantisDeep Cut85points
- Gamma Trianguli AustralisDeep Cut85points
- Gamma TucanaeDeep Cut85points
- Gamma VolantisDeep Cut85points
- Gamma1 CaeliDeep Cut85points
- Gamma1 FornacisDeep Cut85points
- Gamma1 NormaeDeep Cut85points
- Gamma1 OctantisDeep Cut85points
- Gamma1 VolantisDeep Cut85points
- Gamma2 DelphiniDeep Cut85points
- Gamma2 FornacisDeep Cut85points
- Gamma2 NormaeDeep Cut85points
- Gamma2 OctantisDeep Cut85points
- Gamma2 VelorumDeep Cut85points
- Gamma2 VolantisDeep Cut85points
- Gamma3 OctantisDeep Cut85points
- GangDeep Cut85points
- GanjaDeep Cut85points
- GarDeep Cut85points
- Garnet StarDeep Cut85points
- Garro 1Deep Cut85points
- GAT 1370Deep Cut85points
- GAT 1370 bDeep Cut85points
- GAT 1370 cDeep Cut85points
- GB 1508+5714Deep Cut85points
- GCIRS 13EDeep Cut85points
- GCIRS 16SWDeep Cut85points
- GCIRS 7Deep Cut85points
- GCIRS 8*Deep Cut85points
- GD 165Deep Cut85points
- GD 165 BDeep Cut85points
- GD 356Deep Cut85points
- GD 358Deep 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.