Many thanks for all of the kind words, I'll elaborate the discovery conditions - the press releases rather favour the professional community
Myself and many others were observing this event for a main body occultation predicted by Luckystar late 2021, but seeing that we were well out of the predicted path the queenslander contingent decided to take a long-shot and record early and late to see if we could discover anything unusual. And boy did that pay off.
I was watching live with Renato and spotted a 'blip' several minutes early and jotted down the time in my observers log. The main event came and went as expected - a miss - but when we reduced the data it was clear that our data, and that of John Broughton, lined up perfectly.
And to quote John : "After downloading a Ser viewer I can confirm the occultation blip is for real! The only conclusion to come to is that Quaoar must have a narrow ring about 10km wide and by implication is indirect evidence of shepherd moons. The fact that only single occultations have been observed from 3 out of 7 sites suggest it's a ring arc akin to those discovered in the 80s surrounding Neptune, but even those have non-opaque matter in the remainder of the orbit. With that in mind, and extrapolating the Queensland times southward, the NSW observers should look for a 1 or 2-second fade around 10:52:00 UT."
Armed with our discovery data, the professional observatories who had data back to 2018 re-visited their observations and with the knowledge of the exact position of our ring, managed to eek out some overlooked pre-discovery data out of the noise to further confirm the position and nature of its unusual structure.
It took about 18 months to publish what we had worked out in as many hours, but that is how academia works!
And that my friends, is history.
This is an animated gif of the ring passing over a star and in the process, making itself known for the first time.
nice work men 
Awesome work there.
