Milky Way constellations. 18th-century map of constellations and stars associated with the Milky Way ('Voye Lactee'), the band of stars and nebulae that is our galaxy seen from the inside. In the bottom corners are diagrams of geometric methods used to locate stars in the sky. At bottom is a logarithmic scale. This page is from the 1776 edition of Jean N. Fortin's 'Atlas Celeste de Flamsteed', a French edition of the posthumous 1729 atlas by British astronomer John Flamsteed (1646-1719).