I am interested in the fact that an amateur astronomer discovered this and have some subject matter questions. What type/size of telescope would be required? Is this the result of simply arbitrarily scanning night skies? Do amateurs use software of some sort to aide in locating sky locations where undiscovered objects might be? When you do think you’ve found something how do you report it? Do amateur astronomers gravitate toward any one social site, i.e. is there a vibrant Twitter community or subreddit? Was/would Gennedy (and amateurs like her) working in coordination with a group of others (local or distributed).

TLDR I want to discover a space object. How do I do this?