THE DISTANCE AND STRUCTURE OF L379

UBV and Hbeta photometry has been carried out on 107 stars located wit hin the more obscured region of the dark galactic cloud L379. Most of the measured stars are fainter than 10.0m and their spectral classific ation is not available in the literature. Spectral types were found fo r 47 stars using movement along the reddening line coupled with the as sumption that all stars are on the main sequence. For each star, the e xtinction A(v) (mag) and the distance r(kpc) were derived, and from th e A(v)-r graph, an attempt was made to determine the structure of L379 .