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[Dionysus]

So.. grumpyboy stopped by.. and just HANDED us the solve!

From the text file from the destegged image, the numbers correspond to elements on the periodic table. If you take the second letter of each you get

"theansuueryouseekisprofessormoriarty"

So if you email professormoriartySPLATmaefamily.info

You get this

[JustLurking]

Didn't solve it, but I have a feeling I know HOW to do it

[Bloatedsack]

We've been throwing a lot of picture guesses around in IRC. Here's a loose list from top left, skipping the ones that still baffle us.

[JustLurking]

[rose -nli]

constellations

[Ofiuco]

We have since discovered that nearly every star is a moon. Here is an ALMOST complete list:

[Shelina]

Updated list:

[Rogi Ocnorb]

The last one is probably Titan.
Here's a good list.
http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Moons/MoonsSolSys.html

[Shelina]

OK, so we have:

[tom_in_bristol]

In planetary order:

Jupiter (4)
Saturn (7)
Uranus (9)
Neptune (2)

My first line of attack was to use the 4792 somehow
e.g. convert to letters
combine (add or subtract) with J,S,U and N or (M,O,O and N!) in numerical form
also tried jjjjsssssssuuuuuuuuunnSPLATmaefamily.info
also considered the number of moons remaining that weren't given to us
i got 0(mercury), 0, 1, 2, 58, 26, 18, 11, 1(pluto)

Had no success yet, might be close or light years away!



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[2wicked]

Well, "Bronco's lucky number must be 4179"...close, but no cigar.
(as usual)

[Dionysus]

Shying away from 4792, which I couldnt make any sense of, I tried toying with the first letter of each moon.

Unfortunatly, thats brought no results to speak of. At least not in the order of appearance in the puzzle. Listed that way there is an incidence of the same letter - 'p' unaltered - appearing three times in a row. This does not bode well for any basic substitution cipher. Of course it could be somethign more complex, but Im not so good with those yet. No anagrams popped up either.

Dumping this, I played around with both the first and last letters of the planets in a few different orders but have ran into little encouraging.

My next move will be to work on the list of planets (ie Sat, Uran, Nept, Jup, Uran, Uran..) but that looks even less likely than using the names of the moons. Nevertheless, I shall give it a shot...

[Shelina]

Please note that both Dioen and Triton are still with ?
I haven been able to find the exact pictures yet.

I'm pretty sure about the triton because of the green 'legs' of the man in the left of the picture...

But not so sure about Dione. My guess was that the picture was a Celine Dion album, and so we added and 'e' to form Dione.... but we didnt need to add/remove anything in the other pictures, so maybe this is wrong

[grumpyboy]

the upper left is Despina Vandi and the upper right is Galatea (from the painting The nymph Galatea by Raphael)

both are moons of Neptune...

[Shelina]

Thank you!! The painting was getting me mad!!

So, we have: