This is a nice story, Japanese amateur astronomers discover a Kuiper Belt Object using a couple of Celestron scopes:
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/01/a...nd-neptune/amp
They published in Nature and here is the link (takes some time to load the pdf) I hope it works):
https://www.nature.com/articles/s415...register.co.uk
Amazing use of pretty standard equipment, an ASI1600 camera on a Celestron Rowe-ackerman f2.2. Sounds like Houghy's setup. But these guys found a reducer to get down to f1.98.
So keep looking folks (or imaging in this case).