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.
- 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
- 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
- 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/