In 2005 we received 4 applications. Awards by our Grants Committee totaling $9,971 were as follows (principal investigator indicated in parentheses):

1. The American Association of Variable Star Observers (Arne A. Henden). $2,971 to purchase CCD imagers and filters for distribution to AAVSO observers living in regions of the world with few active CCD observers of variable stars.

2. Astronomical Research Institute (Robert E. Holmes, Jr.). $3,000 for the purchase of an SBIG STL-1001E Research Grade CCD Camera to improve data provided to the Minor Planet Center.

3. Haverford College (Fronefield Crawford, III). $2,000 for the purchase of a single, portable laptop computer to be used as part of a distributed processing cluster which is under development at Haverford College for pulsar research.

4. Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (Ronald Melvin Blake). $2,000 for purchase of a time/frequency standard and a data reduction computer to conduct various projects at PARI. The F.A.R. gratefully acknowledges the donation by the Institute for Space Observations of the funds for this grant.