The results of photoelectric photometry of 564 stars in the Vilnius seven-colour system in three areas near the North America and Pelican Nebulae are given. Photometric spectral types, absolute magnitudes, colour excesses, interstellar extinctions and distances of the stars are determined. We find that the dark cloud separating both nebulae is at 580 pc distance. A number of stars immersed into the dark cloud have been found. It seems that the dark cloud extends to south down to 40 declination. The area southwest of Cygni in the declination zones 42 and 43 is comparatively transparent at least up to 1 kpc.
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Straižys et al. (1993) studied this question.