More often than not, my plate solving fails despite the DSO has been visible on the screen while taking a rough shot. My telescope is C9.25 SCT on AVX and camera is Canon 60D unmodified. However, I must say, this is not the case all the time. For example, the other day, I tried to shoot NGC 1232. Immediately after my PA, NGC 1232 was visible on my computer screen through my camera. But when I tried for plate solving through SG Pro, it was trying on and on and on and so I had but to cancel it.
Any help to solve this issue shall be appreciated and heartily welcome.
Nothing is ever 100% but mine works 99% of the time and the times it doesn’t, the online astrometry solver picks it up. Make sure you are focused correctly and using a long enough exposure to get a good star star field above the level of noise. Your camera properties need to be correctly entered, including the orientation (rotation). I haven’t used a DSLR for quite a while so I can’t really help farther than that but the basic principles should be the same.
With my CCD, I occasionally get a starfield that PS2 just won’t solve. But the blind solver will usually get it.