Examples: 1  Find the periodic payment of an annuity due of $70000, payable annually for 3 years at 15% compounded annually. 2  Find the periodic payment of an annuity due of $250700, payable quarterly for 8 years at 5% compounded quarterly.
Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017. A total solar eclipse will take place on Monday, August 21, 2017. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.
The next solar eclipse that can be seen in the United States will be on May 20, 2012. It will be an annular solar eclipse. The last annular eclipse visible from the USA was on May 10, 1994. Similar eclipses occur 18 years apart in the Saros Cycle.