Frank Parkhurst Brackett (June 16, 1865 – September 3, 1951) was an American professor of astronomy who taught at Pomona College.

[7] During the November months at Pomona College, Brackett organized several observing campaigns with his students to perform meteor counts of the Leonids.

[9] The following year he joined Charles G. Abbot on the Smithsonian Expedition to Algeria as part of an ongoing effort to measure the solar constant.

[10] Two years later he joined another Smithsonian expedition that ascended Mount Whitney to measure nocturnal radiation from the atmosphere.

[11] After World War I began in 1914, he took a leave from his teaching position to participate on the Commission for Relief in Belgium.

He was given permission by the German occupation forces to visit the Royal Observatory of Belgium in 1916 and report on its condition.

[2] The solar eclipse of April 28, 1930 passed over California, and Pomona College organized an expedition to observe the event.