  The Argus Optical Array will be the first all-sky, arcsecond-resolution, 5-m
class telescope. The 55 GPix Array, currently being prototyped, will consist of
900 telescopes with 61 MPix very-low-noise CMOS detectors enabling sub-second
cadences. Argus will observe every part of the northern sky for 6-12 hours per
night, achieving a simultaneously high-cadence and deep-sky survey. The array
will build a two-color, million-epoch movie, reaching dark-sky depths of
$m_g$=19.6 each minute and $m_g$=23.6 each week over 47% of the entire sky,
enabling the most-sensitive-yet searches for high-speed transients,
gravitational-wave counterparts, exoplanet microlensing events, and a host of
other phenomena. In this paper we present our newly-developed array
arrangement, which mounts all telescopes into the inside of a hemispherical
bowl (turning the original dome design inside-out). The telescopes' beams thus
converge at a single ``pseudofocal'' point. When placed along the telescope's
polar axis, this point does not move as the telescope tracks, allowing every
telescope to simultaneously look through a single, unmoving window in a fixed
enclosure. This telescope bowl is suspended from a simple free-swinging pivot
(turning the usual telescope mounting support upside-down), with polar
alignment afforded by the creation of a virtual polar axis defined by a second
mounting pivot. This new design, currently being prototyped with the
38-telescope Argus Pathfinder, eliminates the need for a movable external dome
and thus greatly reduces the cost and complexity of the full Argus Array.
Coupled with careful software scope control and the use of existing software
pipelines, the Argus Array could thus become one of the deepest and fastest sky
surveys, within a midscale-level budget.
