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Originally Posted by Pisces
Actually, in the pitch blackness of the night, your color receptive cells in the center of your retina are much less sensitive than the cells on the outside of your retina (which isn't sensitive to any particular color). I don't quite remember exactly how these all are called, but I remember for sure, identifying colors in the night is extremely difficult. Most likely you'll identify it wrong. Be glad you see something at all.
I'm sure someone has links to pages/wikis on eye perception in the dark.
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This is also experienced with stargazers,if you look away slightly from a star/s they appear clearer and brighter,like you said,the rods and cones are more sensitive on the peripheral of the eye and not the centre.
You can still make out colours at night,however they appear more 'washed out' as I said,it all depends on available light in the immediate environment.
Here is a short article on what stargazers and astronomers call 'averted vision' technique.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averted_vision