Taking better astronomical images, with machine learning!

There are a few major observatories in the world, and lots of science to do. In order to observe with one of the big telescopes, astronomers have to propose for time, explaining what they want to do and why it's important. This is a pretty competitive process, and scheduling observations is a hard problem since these observatories are oversubscribed. Telescope time is expensive, too--around $25,000 USD a night or more, depending on which telescope you're using! But what if we could use machine learning to help with this problem of scheduling, making observations shorter or more efficient so we could get through more of them in a night?