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postingI went to in-the-sky.org/skymap.php changed the location to Chennai and set the clock back two an answer nowevening days. I found Venus in the west, there's 4 close votesclicked on it so will update in 5 minutes with actual answersee it's RA and Dec

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Found Wikipedia's page for the constellation Ophiuchus, found the map, and put a red dot where Venus was.

It seems like M19 and M62 were to the East of Venus and M9 was north of it. You were looking at the Milky Way (there's the constellation Sagittarius to the west (left) so you can expect to see all kinds of interesting things there!

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I went to in-the-sky.org/skymap.php changed the location to Chennai and set the clock back two an evening days. I found Venus in the west, clicked on it so see it's RA and Dec

enter image description here

Found Wikipedia's page for the constellation Ophiuchus, found the map, and put a red dot where Venus was.

It seems like M19 and M62 were to the East of Venus and M9 was north of it. You were looking at the Milky Way (there's the constellation Sagittarius to the west (left) so you can expect to see all kinds of interesting things there!

enter image description here

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posting an answer now, there's 4 close votes so will update in 5 minutes with actual answer...