unicode moons

This is a script for a bot that posts an image of an emoji representation & some stats about today's moon phase to twitter and mastodon.

participation

• To add some emojis, please take a look at the emojis available here and then add them to the emoji dictionary here 🌙
  • You can get an idea of what the emojis will look like the Symbola font here

updates:

• March 7, 2021
  • Instead of posting strings of emojis, now posting images of emojis printed in Symbola font on an image of the moon
  • Added alt text for mastodon and twitter
  • Determine the random emojis and font color based on the lunar zodiac placement per flatlib

sources:

• https://docs.opencv.org/3.3.1/d4/d73/tutorial_py_contours_begin.html
• https://pypi.org/project/pytesseract/
• https://github.com/flatangle/flatlib/
• https://github.com/spacerest/moon
• To see some nasa data on the current moon phase, please look at Ernie Wright's moon visualizations over at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/