Thanks for sharing, Megan. Your term, "starwashing", is really helpful and I will endeavour to use it where I can when highlighting this issue (with credit, of course). I also came across this advert from T-Mobile. We probably need a whole new lexicon for this kind of behaviour...

Phone leaning against a box on the ground, long exposure in astro photography mode, my back garden (so not rural; 1/4 mile from a town centre, though low density and well-directed street lighting on surrounding streets) and lots of warm clothing!

Last night's effort!

From our back step at 5:30 am last night, looking almost due East from the south of England. This is with the astro mode on my pixel 7. The sky was a bit too bright (not surprising, given the direction). Lots of stars though!

It was a voluntary move by SpaceX (but possibly "forced" by a need to maintain operations at a similar safety level in a more congested environment). There has been no official explanation offered by SpaceX for the change AFAIK.

Yes, that's correct. Starlink manoeuvres if the collision probability is higher than 1-in-1 million. It used to manoeuvre for probabilities higher than 1-in-100,000. The probability threshold recommended by NASA is 1-in-10,000. Did that help?

I think what some are missing is that the doubling of manoeuvre rate was due predominantly to a change in the collision probability that triggers a manoeuvre. SpaceX shifted Starlink to a threshold of 1E-6 from the previous 1E-5 level. Hope that provides some context.