The topic at the recent workshop was guiding for astrophotography, and a club member sent me a link for a really good explanation of how to guide.
Here it is (It's for PHD 1.13, but although some things have changed with PHD 2, this remains a great read!
The folks working on PHD 2 have also prepared a guide for using it. It's not as comprehensive a treatment as the above source gives, but it's a fine explanation of PHD 2 usage.
Want to download PHD? Here's where you go:
PHD 1
PHD 2
I recommend PHD 2 because of its new features--I particularly like the drift polar alignment tool. If you have multiple guide scopes, guide cameras, or imaging mounts, you may like the ability to create profiles for different combinations of those. I've found version 2 to be more stable than version 1, but that may only be on the OS I use (Windows Vista) I hope to upgrade my imaging laptop this year to a Windows 10 model and will have more to say when that happens.
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