V 4049 Sgr was detected by the authors as a possible symbiotic star on Curtis Schmidt objective prism plates. This star is Nova Sgr 1978 and was first discovered by Stenholm and Lindstrom. When observed in 1979 With SIT specgrograph on CTIO 4 m telescope the outstanding features were the presence of very strong lines of [FeVII] chiefly at 6085 A where its flux relative to H α is 1.6. Details have been published in Pub. astr. Soc. Pacific, 93, 470 (1981).