Anchoring a POS by Asten

Notes on POS

At the present time a POS can only be deployed at an empty (no other pos there) moon. There has been talk of alloying them to be setup anywhere in space at some point.

A small tower is all that's needed to have enough power to put up a compression and reprocessing arrays. A mining op in a stationless system will probably only need a compression array.

A compression array will hold 20 million m3 of ore or about 20 fully cargo optimized freighter.

Another pos can then be set up in the manufacturing system with a reprocessing array to break the ore into minerals. I believe a max skilled refiner (with the +4 refining implant) gets a refine of 69.9 % in a maxed station and 71.9 % in a pos. (in highsec anyway, not sure of the mechanics for null anymore)

Setting up the POS

You warp to the moon at 0, providing it's unoccupied you can right click on the tower in your cargohold (freighter, orca, DST (deep space transport) or large enough T1 industrial) choose launch for corp.

Click on the packaged tower in space and choose ANCHOR. The pos will start to be anchored about 50-75 km away. 

You should have time to slowboat to it before it's anchored. Right click on the tower right away and bookmark it's position so you can find it again. Once it's anchored, you can access the fuel bay and put in fuel and starbase charters and online the tower.

Now that the shields (bubble) are up you can launch the compression array the same as you did the tower. When you click on the array to anchor it, it will appear as a green box with directional arrows on it. Drag the arrows to position the array where you want it. It will not let you anchor it too close to the tower. Once in position you can right click on the box to anchor and then online the array.

When the op is over you can unload the arrays and offline and unanchor the arrays and tower till next time. I wouldn't leave unanchoring arrays or a tower unattended as once unanchored anyone can scoop them up.