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 solar eclipse will take place at around 8.45am GMT and is due to last for a few hours. Most of it will go unnoticed because its path falls over the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. It will start in Greenland and move counterclockwise towards the northeast, passing over Iceland and the UK.