14 papers now. Also known as PHAT, Photographing the Andromeda Galaxy in maximum detail has been the main use of the Hubble Telescope for the past 3 years.

14 The Period-Age Relationship of Cepheid Variables
13 The Cepheid period-luminosity relation
12 Mapping Stellar Metallicity
11 Recent Star Formation History
10 Ultraviolet to Infrared Photometry
9 Survey of Planetary Nebulae
8 ?
7 Light extinction curve in the centre
6 Far-ultraviolet flux as a star formation tracer
5 Ages and Masses of the Stellar Clusters
4 Stellar Initial Mass Function
3 Ages and Masses of Stellar Clusters
2 Blue Horizontal Branch Stars
1 Bright UV Stars in the Bulge

mollwollfumble said:

14 papers now. Also known as PHAT, Photographing the Andromeda Galaxy in maximum detail has been the main use of the Hubble Telescope for the past 3 years.

14 The Period-Age Relationship of Cepheid Variables
13 The Cepheid period-luminosity relation
12 Mapping Stellar Metallicity
11 Recent Star Formation History
10 Ultraviolet to Infrared Photometry
9 Survey of Planetary Nebulae
8 ?
7 Light extinction curve in the centre
6 Far-ultraviolet flux as a star formation tracer
5 Ages and Masses of the Stellar Clusters
4 Stellar Initial Mass Function
3 Ages and Masses of Stellar Clusters
2 Blue Horizontal Branch Stars
1 Bright UV Stars in the Bulge

Of course, I usually just look at the pictures. This survey isn’t (or at least by Jan 2015 wasn’t) of the whole of the Andromeda galaxy, but instead one side with centre. The largest scale download image available is 17384 × 5558 pixels, from http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/02/image/a/
Here’s a smaller version:

did you look up your local astronomy club about taking pictures via telescopes?

mollwollfumble said:

14 papers now. Also known as PHAT, Photographing the Andromeda Galaxy in maximum detail has been the main use of the Hubble Telescope for the past 3 years.

14 The Period-Age Relationship of Cepheid Variables
13 The Cepheid period-luminosity relation
…

The Cepheid data from Hubble at Andromeda is not as good as that from Pan-STARRS.
Hubble found 130 Cepheids in the Andromeda galaxy. Pan-STARRS found 1440 Cepheids there. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.6170.pdf

wookiemeister said:

did you look up your local astronomy club about taking pictures via telescopes?

Not yet. Am getting back in touch with the local “space society”, and the Melbourne Uni cubesat program first.
The local astronomy club is dauntingly large http://asv.org.au/

mollwollfumble said:

wookiemeister said:

did you look up your local astronomy club about taking pictures via telescopes?

Not yet. Am getting back in touch with the local “space society”, and the Melbourne Uni cubesat program first.
The local astronomy club is dauntingly large http://asv.org.au/

you’ll get some good info on space photography from the club though

the space photography people i’ve met can be a little odd so just see how you go first up

mollwollfumble said:

14 papers now. Also known as PHAT, Photographing the Andromeda Galaxy in maximum detail has been the main use of the Hubble Telescope for the past 3 years.

10 Ultraviolet to Infrared Photometry

I should have added “of 117 Million Equidistant Stars”. I shouldn’t have to say how important that is for our understanding of the HR-Diagram, and therefore for stellar evolution. In order to plot any star on the HR-diagram, it is necessary to know either its absolute luminosity (the spacecraft Gaia is working on this) or its relative luminosity at fixed distance. And the only way to get relative luminosity of a lot of stars is photometry.

Gaia will construct a catalog of about 1 billion astronomical objects, mostly stars. “By now (16 Nov 2015) Gaia has accumulated about 340 billion positional or astrometric measurements, 68 billion brightness or photometric data points, and 6.7 billion spectra.” The first year of Gaia’\s observations will be released in mid 2016, with final release of data from all five years of operation in 2022.

All this will help us identify stars that are about to go supernova before they go supernova. As well as give us an unprecedented look at abnormal stars (including those with advanced alien civilizations, semi-TIC)