$\int_D \left(\frac{1}{\Bigr((x+1)^2+(y+1)^2+(z+2)^2 \Bigr)^{10}} - \frac{1}{\Bigr(1^2+1^2+2^2 \Bigr)^{10}} \right) dS$ is positive or negative?

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Let $e_1=(1,0,2), e_2:=(0,1,0)$ be the vector in $\mathbb R^3$.

We define $D:=\{(x,y,z)\in\mathbb {R}^3: x+2z=0; x^2+y^2+z^2\leq 1 \}$. I would like to compute exactly the following integral:

$$ A:=\int_D \left(\frac{1}{\Bigr((x+1)^2+(y+1)^2+(z+2)^2 \Bigr)^{10}} - \frac{1}{\Bigr(1^2+1^2+2^2 \Bigr)^{10}} \right) dS $$

Here $\int_D f dS$ means the surface integral of $S$ on defined surface domain $D$.

I want to know that $A$ is positive or negative

I am tried to change variable $(x,y)\mapsto (x,y,-x/2)$ or use the spherical coordinates. But the computation is very complicated because the function and the domain are not symmetric together!

Can you suggest me how to compute exactly the integral?

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Consider translating to a coordinate system centered at $(-1,-1,-2)$ and rotated such that the new $z$ unit vector is parallel to the old $(1,0,2)$ vector and $y$ remains unrotated. This gives us the new integral

$$I = \int_{D'}\frac{1}{(x^2+y^2+z^2)^{10}}-\frac{1}{6^{10}}dS$$

where

$$D' = \{(x,y,z)\in\Bbb{R}^3:z = \sqrt{5}; x^2+(y-1)^2+(z-\sqrt{5})^2\leq 1\}$$

which simplifies the integral even further to

$$\int\limits_{x^2+(y-1)^2\leq 1}\frac{dA}{(x^2+y^2+5)^{10}}-\frac{\pi}{6^{10}}$$

The integral becomes

$$\int_0^\pi\int_0^{2\sin\theta}\frac{r\:dr\:d\theta}{(r^2+5)^{10}} = \frac{1}{18\cdot5^9}\int_0^\pi1-\frac{1}{(\frac{4}{5}\sin^2\theta+1)^9}\:d\theta$$

Using the substitution $t=\tan\theta$ we can get that integral evaluates to

$$\frac{1}{18\cdot5^9}\left(\pi - 2\int_0^\infty\frac{(t^2+1)^8dt}{\left(\frac{9}{5}t^2+1\right)^9}\right) = \frac{\pi}{18\cdot5^9}\left(1-\frac{1487675\sqrt{5}}{14348907}\right)$$

which is less than $\frac{\pi}{6^{10}}$, therefore $A$ is negative.