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The following report has been submitted to IAU Circulairs "We have observed the possible nova in Scutum that was announced on IAUC 8190 with the 1.22 m telescope + B&C spectrograph + CCD in Asiago on Aug 31.97 UT, at 0.23 nm/pix dispersion over the range 372 - 491 nm in cloudy sky conditions. The Balmer series is weakly in emission down to H-epsilon, and the line width is not appreciably larger than the instrumental profile (300 km/sec). The Balmer line profiles show a weak absorption component blushifted by 500 km/sec and a second emission peak red shifted by 650 km/sec with respect to the main emission line. The well developed absorption spectrum closely match that of a normal F2 supergiant, with normal intensity for s-element lines of 455.4 BaII and 407.8, 421.6 SrII." Corrado Boeche and Ulisse Munari, Asiago Observatory, Italy
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