  Recent advancements in low-cost astronomical equipment, including
high-quality medium-aperture telescopes and low-noise CMOS detectors, have made
the deployment of large optical telescope arrays both financially feasible and
scientifically interesting. The Argus Optical Array is one such system,
composed of 900 eight-inch telescopes, which is planned to cover the entire
night sky in each exposure and is capable of being the deepest and fastest
Northern Hemisphere sky survey. With this new class of telescope comes new
challenges: determining optimal individual telescope pointings to achieve
required sky coverage and overlaps for large numbers of telescopes, and
realizing those pointings using either individual mounts, larger mounting
structures containing telescope subarrays, or the full array on a single mount.
In this paper, we describe a method for creating a pointing pattern, and an
algorithm for rapidly evaluating sky coverage and overlaps given that pattern,
and apply it to the Argus Array. Using this pattern, telescopes are placed into
a hemispherical arrangement, which can be mounted as a single monolithic array
or split into several smaller subarrays. These methods can be applied to other
large arrays where sky packing is challenging and evenly spaced array
subdivisions are necessary for mounting.
