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Venus is visible after sunset at the moment although it can be also spotted in the daytime. You said you saw Venus in the early morning, so unless it was after sunrise your were probably looking at something else, perhaps Jupiter.
Try and focus on something in the distance on the horizon first with the 30mm eyepiece and then the shorter ones and if you can achieve focus you should be able to get the Moon and planets too at night time. Saturn is well placed at the moment in the evening.
Depending on the design of your telescope you may have to have the erecting prism in all the time to achieve focus otherwise a short extension tube may be needed.
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