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Your peripheral vision has greater ACUITY at night but that doesn't improve its RESOLUTION. Your peripheral vision will be better able to alert you to movements at night. You will still be better able to identify objects - and threats - with your focal vision.

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> Your peripheral vision will be better able to alert you to movements at night. You will still be better able to identify objects - and threats - with your focal vision.

In other words, you'll notice potential threats with peripheral vision first, so your eyes should not be darting around to all of the dark places as the heat maps show, unless you have cause due to movement or something. That was my point.

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