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Yes. To amplify slightly, the sphere is somewhat flattened by Lorentz
contraction, but in addition we see it as skewed because of time-of-
flight differences between light rays originating at different points
on the sphere. The fun part is that a projection of the skewed
flattened ellipsoid is (for a distant observer) indistinguishable
from a projection of the original sphere! ...